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The district along with Mumbai City district and other suburban localities make up Greater Mumbai. The district occupies an area of 446 km 2. [3] This is the second smallest district of Maharashtra, and the jurisdiction of Mumbai Suburban district extends from Bandra to Dahisar, from Kurla to Mulund, and from Kurla up to Trombay creek. The ...
The Mumbai Suburban Railway is an offshoot of the first passenger railway to be built by the British East India Company, and is also the oldest railway system in Asia.The first train was run by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (now Central Railway) between Bori Bunder (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus) and Thane, a distance of 34 km (21 mi), on 16 April 1853 at 15:35.
The table below lists all the talukas (tahsils/tehsils) of all the thirty-six districts in the Indian state of Maharashtra, along with district-subdivision and urban status information of headquarters villages/towns, as all talukas are intermediate level panchayats between the zilla parishad (district councils) at the district level and gram panchayats (village councils) at the lower level.
Mumbai is bounded by the Arabian Sea to the west. [6] Sanjay Gandhi National Park is located partly in the Mumbai suburban district, and partly in the Thane district, and it extends over an area of 103.09 km 2 (39.80 sq mi). [7]
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), [4] or Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) is the governing civic body of Mumbai, the capital city of Maharashtra. Salman Khan Is Now Brand Ambassador of BMC from 2016 [5].The BMC is India's richest municipal corporation. [6] [7] Its annual budget exceeds that of some of India's smaller ...
The western part of Mumbai Suburban district (to the west of Sanjay Gandhi National Park) is called the Western Suburbs and the eastern part of the district is called the Eastern Suburbs. The northernmost portion of the island, which is outside of the Mumbai city limits, lies in Thane District .
Mumbai Metropolitan Region (ISO: Muṁbaī Mahānagara Pradēśa; abbreviated to MMR and previously also known as Greater Bombay Metropolitan Area), [6] [7] is a metropolitan area consisting of Mumbai and its satellite towns in the northern Konkan division of Maharashtra in western India.
Kanjur Marg (Marathi pronunciation: [kaɲd͡zuɾmaːɾɡ]) is a railway station on the Central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. Kanjur Marg station is the main access point for IIT Bombay, [1] [2] KV IIT Powai, NITIE, Hiranandani Gardens and other locations in Powai. The station was opened on 26 January 1968 and it is named after ...