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Borivali (Pronunciation: [boːɾiʋəliː]) is a suburb which is located in the north-western end of Mumbai, India. It has a large Marathi population. Traditionally the tribals and East Indians lived in Borivali.
Mumbai Suburban district (Marathi: Mumbai Upanagar Jilhā) is the second most populous district of Maharashtra in the Konkan Division. With its administrative headquarters in Bandra , the district consists of three subdivisions or tehsils (townships): Kurla , Andheri , and Borivali . [ 2 ]
Borivali constituency is one of the 26 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in the Mumbai Suburban district. [1]Borivali is part of the Mumbai North Lok Sabha constituency along with five other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely Dahisar, Magathane Kandivali East, Charkop and Malad West in the Mumbai Suburban district.
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.
Before delimitation, Mumbai North Lok Sabha constituency comprises Dahisar, Magathane, Borivali, Kandivali, Malad and Goregaon Vidhan Sabha constituencies. [2]At present, after the implementation of the Presidential notification on delimitation on 19 February 2008, this constituency comprises six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments.
It sits on Salsette Island, partially shared with the Thane district. [5] 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 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.
The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is the lower house of bicameral state legislature of the Maharashtra state in India.Maharashtra came into existence on 1 May 1960. The number of constituencies of the first Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, the lower house of the Maharashtra state legislature in 1960 was 264. 33 constituencies were reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled ...