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Until 1999, the district says, the ground around Amalner's Mangal Dev temple was the town's dump. It has been rebuilt since, and visitors now arrive by train at Amalner City and by road from Dhule and Jalgaon, with questions.

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Trade 1

Mangal Dev temple trade

Lodges, puja shops and cabs answer visitors from Dhule, Jalgaon and the trains at Amalner City.

Trade 2

Schools and classes

In the town where Sane Guruji taught, classes send timetables and fee notes to parents.

State
Maharashtra
District
Jalgaon; Amalner is a sub-division and a major urban centre[2]
Temple
Shri Mangal Dev, rebuilt after 1999[1]
Railway
Amalner City (AN)[1]
By road
39 km from Dhule, 56 km from Jalgaon[1]
River
Bori[4],[2]
Billing
₹ with GST to your Maharashtra GSTIN

For Amalner's lodges, eateries and puja shops around the Mangal Dev temple, the cabs that meet trains at Amalner City and run to Dhule and Jalgaon, the classes in a town of old schools, and the taluka's cotton traders: a checklist to finish before the first template goes out, and what each message costs.

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Before an Amalner business sends its first template

A lodge near the Mangal Dev temple, a cab stand at Amalner City or a coaching class can be on the official API within a day of finishing this list. Tick each item to see what it covers.

Nothing on the list costs money by itself; messages are charged only when they are delivered. The three required items are the slow ones, because Meta checks them, so start there.

The Amalner setup checklist

6/6

ticked

Required
3 / 3
Optional
3 / 3

Ready for the first visitor's message

Every item ticked.

An illustrative business. The required items are what Meta asks of every business on the API; the rest are what makes the first month go smoothly.

Ready for the first visitor's message. 6 of 6 ticked.

Amalner in eight lines

From the Jalgaon district administration's pages, Invest India's ODOP list and, for the town's history, Wikipedia.

Jalgaon district lists Amalner among its major urban centres and religious places, and runs a sub-divisional office there.[2]

The district calls the Shri Mangal Dev temple one of the most ancient and rare in India; who built it is not known, and some believe it was first renovated in 1933.[1]

By its own account the temple fell into neglect after 1940, its surroundings were the town's dumping ground until 1999, and a renovation since then has transformed it.[1]

Amalner City station (AN) is a halt for passenger, MEMU, express and superfast trains; the town is about 39 km from Dhule and 56 km from Jalgaon by road.[1]

Amalner stands on the Bori, one of the rivers the district names as draining Khandesh south of the Tapi, on the Western Railway line between Surat and Bhusawal.[4],[2]

Sane Guruji, the writer of Shyamchi Aai, taught at Pratap High School in Amalner, and the town's Pratap Tatwadnyan Mandir was formerly the Indian Institute of Philosophy.[4]

In 1945 Azim Premji's father started a vanaspati factory in Amalner, now regarded as the mother plant of Wipro.[4]

The district trades in cotton, bananas, pulses, gold and tea; Marathi is its main language, with Ahirani and Hindi also spoken, and its ODOP products are the Jalgaon banana and PVC pipes.[2],[3]

A rebuilt temple, and a town that answers its visitors

The district's page on the Mangal Dev temple is unusually frank: for decades the site was neglected, and until 1999 its surroundings took the town's rubbish. Since the renovation, Amalner's visitors come with practical questions, the train from Surat or Bhusawal, a room for the night, a cab back to Dhule, and those questions now usually arrive on WhatsApp.

For a lodge or a shop, that is the cheapest kind of message. A visitor who writes first opens a 24-hour window, and every answer inside it, photos, a map pin, the price, is a reply at the service rate with no template. Templates come in later: the booking confirmation the day before, the receipt after check-out, and, only for visitors who said yes, a note about the next festival.

Who messages what

Who in Amalner ticks the list first

Four kinds of business that follow from the temple, the railway, the schools and the fields.

SectorWhat it sends on WhatsApp
Lodges, eateries and puja shops near the templeThe district counts the rebuilt Mangal Dev temple among Jalgaon's places to visit, and visitors come from Dhule and Jalgaon.[1]
  • Room and menu photos in reply
  • Booking confirmation
  • Festival note to opted-in visitors
Cab stands and bus operatorsExpress and superfast trains halt at Amalner City, and families go on by road to Dhule, 39 km, and Jalgaon, 56 km.[1]
  • Fare reply to the passenger
  • Pickup note with the train
  • Driver name and vehicle number
Schools, colleges and coaching classesFrom Pratap High School, where Sane Guruji taught, to the Pratap Tatwadnyan Mandir, Amalner has been a school town for generations.[4]
  • Timetable and exam notices
  • Fee reminders to parents
  • New-batch news to opted-in families
Cotton and banana tradersThe district is a business centre for cotton and bananas, and the Jalgaon banana is its ODOP product.[2],[3]
  • The day's rate to growers who ask
  • Weighment slip and payment note
  • Dispatch note to the buyer

Marathi on the slip, Hindi for visitors from further away

Marathi, Hindi and English are all Meta template languages, approved one version at a time.

Ahirani, also spoken in the district, is not a template language, but staff can reply in it whenever a customer writes in it. InfiQ's own support works in English and Hindi.

Meta template languages relevant to Amalner
LanguageMeta codeUse it for
MarathimrMost visitors, parents, students and growers
HindihiVisitors from Madhya Pradesh and further north
English (India)en_INColleges, receipts and corporate travellers

Prices in ₹, with USD and EUR

What a temple-town month costs an Amalner lodge

Lite at ₹999 a month or Growth at ₹2,999, then each delivered message at the India rate: ₹0.145 for a reply to a visitor, ₹0.19 for a booking or pickup note, ₹0.94 for a festival note to opted-in guests and ₹0.14 for a passcode.

Snapshot rates · as of 20 Oct 2026, 00:02 UTC

Lite

₹999 / month≈ $10.51 USD

₹833 / month, billed yearly≈ $8.76 USD

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Growth

₹2,999 / month≈ $31.55 USD

₹2,499 / month, billed yearly≈ $26.29 USD

Lite, plus the API, automation and team scale serious senders need.

Enterprise

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Per message to Amalner · India

InfiQ per-message rates for Amalner in rupees and USD
Category₹ INRUSD
Marketing₹0.9435$0.0099
Utility₹0.1941$0.0020
Authentication₹0.1402$0.0015
Service₹0.1450$0.0015
Per-message rates for all 47 markets, in ₹ and USD
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MarketMarketingUtilityAuthenticationService
Argentina$0.0572₹5.4352$0.0241₹2.2874$0.0241₹2.2874$0.0241₹2.2874
Bangladesh$0.0678₹6.4397$0.0034₹0.3254$0.0034₹0.3254$0.0034₹0.3254
Brazil$0.0578₹5.4970$0.0063₹0.5981$0.0063₹0.5981$0.0063₹0.5981
Chile$0.0822₹7.8162$0.0185₹1.7585$0.0185₹1.7585$0.0185₹1.7585
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Egypt$0.0596₹5.6629$0.0033₹0.3167$0.0033₹0.3167$0.0033₹0.3167
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On InfiQ

What an Amalner business runs on InfiQ

One for each part of the checklist that keeps working after day one.

  • Shared team inbox

    One WhatsApp number answered by a team: 10 users on Lite and 25 on Growth, agent and manager roles, transfers, private notes, labels and canned replies.

    The front desk, the owner and the cab desk answer one number, with notes on each booking, so a family arriving at Amalner City is met by whoever is free.

  • InfiQ Flows chatbot builder

    A no-code builder for automated conversations (27 blocks, versioned publishing with rollback), priced per flow; the Growth plan includes one.

    A short flow answers the questions every visitor asks, the distance from the station and the check-in time, and hands the chat to a person for the rest.

  • Consent records and opt-out enforcement

    Each contact's opt-in source and time are recorded, STOP replies are enforced at platform level (even against later imports), and the audit trail exports.

    The yes on the booking slip or admission form is recorded with its date and source, and a STOP reply keeps a guest or parent off later offers.

Nearby

City pages near Amalner

Neighbouring markets in Khandesh and across the Satpuras.

Jalgaon has its own page about the district headquarters; this one stays with Amalner. The India guide covers DPDP, DLT and the rules for the whole country.

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Sources

Facts on this page were checked against these sources on the dates shown. Page updated 2026-10-20.

  1. [1]Shri Mangal Dev Temple of Amalner · District Administration, Jalgaon · read 2026-10-21
  2. [2]About district · District Administration, Jalgaon · read 2026-10-21
  3. [3]ODOP product list, V33 (31 December 2025) · Invest India · read 2026-10-21
  4. [4]Amalner (geography and history) · Wikipedia · read 2026-10-21

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