Palghar is a coastal town on the outskirts of Mumbai.

Geography

The Arabian sea coast is just 8 to 10 km away from the town. To its east is the Sahyadri range of low mountains.

Employment

The main occupation of the people of Palghar is farming and trading and working for companies based in Bombay. A large part of the population commutes to Bombay daily to make a living. There is also a good number of small and medium scale chemical, textile and pharmaceutical factories. Maharashtra's biggest fishing center, Satpati, is located beside Palghar railway station. There are farms growing chickoos, coconuts, palm dotted all around villages around Palghar. Rice is grown on agricultural lands during the monsoon.

Demographics

Palghar is surprisingly cosmopolitian. Being a border town between Gujarat and Maharashtra and being close to Mumbai, it has a good percentage of population of people from other states besides Maharashtra like Gujarat,Rajasthan, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Most of the rich landlords of Palghar made their money trading grass to the dairies in Mumbai. Grass trading is still a major occupation of many families in Palghar. The town is also close to an industrial complex located at Boisar and India's first nuclear power plant located at Tarapur.

Education

The town has a number of schools and a college.

Marathi Schools

• Aryan Education society's M.N. Dandekar Highschool (Oldest school in Palghar)
• Shri Satu Kadam vidyalay.(formerly known as Jeevan Vikas)

English Schools

• Anand Ashram Convent English High School ( oldest english medium school in palghar )
• Kenam High School (Established in 1969)
• Twinkle Star High School
• Holy Spirit High School
• Sacred Heart High School

College

• Sonopant Dandekar Shikshan Mandali College is a degree college for science, arts and commerce.

Also it has Post Graduate courses in Arts and Commerce.

Miscellaneous

Palghar also has number of hospitals and medical facilities.

Palghar has many hospitals. Some are specialised for women care while others are for all types of patients.There are 2 sonography centres along with x-ray facility.The government primary health centre also caters to all patients free of charge.There are ambulance services for taking the patients to referral hospitals.There is a medical association of the doctors in and around palghar which holds CME programmes to catch up with new developments in medicine. The biggest drawback is the lack of a blood bank.The closest one is nearly 60 to 70 km away. There is a charitable ophthalmic hospital which is developing very fast with many amenities for eye care. List of Hospitals in Palghar:

• Sharada Hospital
• Philia Hospital
• Dhada Hospital
• Kanta Hospital (Maternity clinic)
• Dhawale Memorial Homoeopathic Hospital