Nagpur is a city in the central part of India. In Maharashtra State. Left side is the map of Maharashtra state shows the position of Nagpur city. Nagpur district is located between 21*45 N to 20*30 N and 78*15 E to 79*45 E, which essentially indicates that Nagpur district is located in the Deccan Plateau. The adjoining districts are Bhandara on the east, Chandrapur on the south, Amravati and Wardha on the west and in the north shares the boundary with Madhya Pradesh.
It is practically at geographical center of India, in fact the zero milestone of India is in this city. All major highways NH-7 ( Varanasi – Kanyakumari ) & NH-6 (Mumbai – Sambalpur – Calcutta) and major railways trunk route (Mumbai, Chennai, Howrah * Delhi) pass through the city. Important Central & State Government offices and institutions are located in Nagpur. Industrial Development is existing along the fringe areas like Kamptee, Hingna, Wadi, Khapri, Butibori and Kalmeshwar
Etymology
The Nag River, a tributary of the Kanhan River, flows in a serpentine path and so is named, “Nag”, the Marathi word for Cobra. Nagpanchami, a religious day on which people worship/show respect to snake by providing milk as a food, is observed by majority of people. According to Dr. B. R. Ambedkar people of Nagpur belong to nag dynasty who were followers of the Buddha. And, so the river and city is named as Nagpur. While others says that the river flows through the old city of Nagpur and hence the city is named after this river. “Pur” is common suffix given to cities, villages and towns across India, and is often simply translated “city”.
Civic administration
Nagpur is administered by Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) which is democratically elected civic governing body. Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) works with NMC and carries out works like development of civic infrastructure and new urban areas on behalf of NMC. The city is divided in 10 zones which are in turn divided into 136 wards. Each ward is represented by a corporator, majority of whom are elected in local elections.
Industry
Nagpur is an important city for the scientific community as it is headquarters of number of national level scientific and governmental establishments like the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute NEERI, Central Institute of Cotton Research (CICR), National Research Centre for Citrus, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Aluminium Research and Development Centre, and Petroleum And Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO) (formerly known as Department of Explosives).
Education
Nagpur is a major education centre in Central India. The Nagpur university is now known to be Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj (R.T.M.) Nagpur University, Nagpur. The city has both “municipal schools” (run by the NMC) as well as private schools (run by trusts or individuals), which in some cases receive financial aid from the government. The city’s school system follows a 10+2+3/4 plan, after which students have the option to enroll in Junior college and later degree courses. Founded in 1923, Nagpur University[31] is one of the oldest in the country and has geographical jurisdiction over the five districts of Nagpur division in addition to giving affiliation to hundreds of colleges. Nagpur has three Medical colleges namely Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) and Lata Mangeshkar Medical College (LMC). Nagpur has several engineering colleges which provide education in various specialty courses. Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) is one of the reputed technical institutes in the country and also an Institute of National Importance. Nagpur 
has India’s only National Fire Service College that provides graduation course in Fire Engineering. In addition to well known education institutions, the Raman Science Centre promotes scientific attitude and has 133 seat planetarium. The well known colleges for the higher education are VNIT and University Department Pharmaceutical Sciences (UDPS), Nagpur.
People and Culture.
The city contains a large number of people from other Indian states as well as people belonging to the world’s major faiths. Nagpur plays host to a variety of cultural events throughout the year. Cultural and literary societies in Nagpur include Vidarbha Sahitya Sangh (for development of Marathi), Vidarbha Rashtrabhasha Prachar Samiti (promotion and spreading Hindi) and Vidarbha Hindi Sahitya Sammelan (for promoting Hindi).
Economy
Nagpur has been the main center of commerce in the Vidarbha region since early days and is an important trading location. However, Nagpur’s economic importance had gradually declined relative to Mumbai and Pune after the merging of Vidarbha into the Maharashtra because of a prolonged period of neglect by the state government. During the slowdown, state and central government offices were a major source of employment in the city. Nagpur’s economy is now recovering from past slowdown and city has attracted Rupees 5,000 crore in investment in 2004. The city is important for the banking sector as it hosts the regional office of Reserve Bank of India, which was opened on September 10, 1956. Sitabuldi market in central Nagpur, known as the Heart of the city, is the main and major commercial market area of city.
The Butibori industrial area is the largest in all of Asia in terms of area. The estate’s largest unit is of Indo Rama Synthetics, which manufactures synthetic polyester yarn. Other units in Butibori include the power transmission company KEC, Hyundai Unitech, ACC Nihon Castings Ltd. Koradi Thermal Power Station and Khaparkheda Thermal Power Station are the two major thermal power stations located near Nagpur and operated by MSPGCL.
The Hingna industrial estate located on the western fringes of the city is made up of around 900 small and medium industrial units. The major ones among them are tractor manufacturing plant of Mahindra and Mahindra, casting units of NECO Ltd. (the country’s largest casting group), units of International Combustions, Bajaj Auto group, Candico (the SECOND largest confectionery manufacturing plant in India ), Ajanta toothbrushes and Sanvijay Group (largest steel rolling group of companies for long products in Central India)[54]. Nagpur is home to ice-cream manufacturer Dinshaws, Indian dry food manufacturer Haldiram’s and Ayurvedic product company Vicco
