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This study aims to identify geographical points of interest and tourism potential in Parner tehsil of Ahmednagar District of Maharashtra and to highlight the attractive tourist destinations and religious places in the region. To the introduced exact situation and importance of many wonderful, useful distinctive places and geographical point of interest in Parner tehsil. This paper is descriptive in nature and qualitative study based on empirical observations. This study based on primary and secondary data. All natural geographical, historical and cultural tourist centers were visited during study period. Parner tehsil is enriched of geographical, historical, and cultural tourism aspects. Suitable maps were prepared with the help of QGIS and ARC MAP software’s for the ease of tourists. Tourist attractions in the tehsil as is, natural beauty, potholes, caves, temples, ideal village, industries, festivals etc. Even though Nighoj potholes and Vadgaon Darya caves are famous geographical destinations but other places are neglected by tourism industry experts. This paper will also become much helpful for planner, tourists, historians, geographers and archeologists to access remote but well known destinations.

The present study includes crop diversity and its conservation on-farm for sustainable agricultural production in the district of Bhandara. Bhandara district is a known rice-producing district having 60 to 75 % area occupied by rice. In 1991 maximum crop diversification in Bhandara and Pauni tehsil and minimum in Tumsar tehsil. Crop diversification in 20 years results that in 1991 crop diversification was much higher than in 2011; because at that time majority of cultivators depend thereon on agriculture on monsoon rainfall. In 2011 area under irrigation was increased by 21.46% to the total cropped area in the district. In this year total cropped was 245607 hector out of which 56.96% area under irrigation. The maximum area under irrigation was in Pauni tehsil (71.56%) and the minimum in Lakhandur tehsil (41.24%). In the district out of the total cropped area 58.52% area under rice out of which 49.11% was under irrigation. In Sakoli tehsil area under rice were maximum in number and 55.53% area under irrigation. From 1999 to 2011 in the number of tehsil area under irrigation increased. The present study to help agriculture planner government policies maker plan the study area.

The present study is geospatial modeling in the assessment of environmental resources for sustainable water resource management in a Bhandara district, India, using by geographical information system (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) techniques. The study will be based on secondary data. Secondary data was collected during the time period between are 1971 to 2013. After data collection the data were edited and coded. Then all the collected data were scrutinized carefully and recorded in master sheets. The monsoon rains in district are concentrated in the four months from June to September and receive 90.81% rainfall, post-monsoon 1.86% pre-monsoon 4.83% and winter 2.48%. Sandy red soil has covered 31% area; median black soil has covered 47% and Lomi red soil 22% covered the area of district. There are 580 large and 13,758 small and medium sized lakes in the district. The percentage of total area under forest 12.25%, especially during 2001 to 2011 periods it was in Bhandara (12.33%), Mohadi (19.89%), Tumsar (13.27%), Lakhani (11.13%) and Lakhandur (16.24%) decreased on large scale. There is a tremendous increase in the forest area in Sakoli (9.31%). Well irrigation is very important, in 1981; the total irrigated area was 66009 hect. of these 7.67% area is under well irrigation in 2011, the total irrigated area was 128165 hect; of these, 19605 hect. (15.30%) area was under well irrigation in the district. The aim of this present study was to evaluate environmental resource units that have been delineated based on the geospatial modeling of environment parameters with appropriate weights in GIS and RS techniques. The data can be used for area management, utilized in restoration and conservation of natural resources studies in the future.