Indira Nagar, Srinagar

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Indira Nagar, Srinagar
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Indira Nagar, Srinagar
Coordinates: 34°4′16.56″N74°50′38.27″E / 34.0712667°N 74.8439639°E / 34.0712667; 74.8439639
CountryFlag of India.svg India
Union territory Jammu and Kashmir
District Srinagar
SettledAncient
Government
 • TypeDemocracy
 • BodyGovernment of Jammu and Kashmir
 •  MLA Mohammad Ashraf Mir
 •  Member of Parliament Farooq Abdullah
Elevation
1,559.5 m (5,116.5 ft)
Languages
 • Official Kashmiri, Urdu, Hindi, Dogri, English [1] [2]
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
190004
Telephone code0194
Vehicle registration JK01

Indira Nagar is a residential area in the city of Srinagar in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. [3] It used to be a lake [4] before but now only a few hundred meters of the lake are left.

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This area comes under the control of Badami Bagh Cantonment along with other areas like Batwara, Shivpora, and Sonwar Bagh. The cantonment is responsible for maintaining the roads, street lights, and other infrastructure, unlike other areas of Srinagar, which are maintained by the Srinagar Municipal Corporation.

Kashmiri Pandits, Muslims, Sikhs, and Hindus live in the area.

Over the years, this area has been commercialised by the construction of many hotels. It is located about 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) from the commercial hub of Kashmir, Lal Chowk. Indira Nagar is near G.B. Pant Children's Hospital. The pincode is 190004. [5]

This area falls under the Sonwar constituency, for which the MLA is Mohammad Ashraf Mir. [6]

2014 Kashmir Flood

Indira Nagar [7] was one of many areas of Srinagar, including Shivpora, Jawahar Nagar, Rajbagh, Gogji Bagh, Pandrathan, and Batwara, that were among the worst hit by the 2014 Kashmir floods. Indira Nagar was completely submerged for more than 30 days. Many houses were damaged or destroyed due to the floods, but only a few people were killed. The water started to enter Indira Nagar at about 4:00 am because of a breach in the Jhelum River bund. It took just a few hours to reach for the water level to rise and fill more than one and a half storeys. After the floods, people returned to their homes, began cleaning up, and resumed their routines, though life remained difficult.

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Hotels

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Act, 2020" (PDF). The Gazette of India. 27 September 2020. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  2. ↑ "Parliament passes JK Official Languages Bill, 2020". Rising Kashmir. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 24 September 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  3. ↑ "Where is Srinagar?". Mapsofindia.com. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
  4. ↑ "Indra Nagar Lake". www.googlemaps.com.
  5. ↑ "Pincode of Indira Nagar Sonwar Srinagar, Jammu And Kashmir". Pincodes.info. 11 November 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
  6. ↑ "Mohammad Ashraf Mir Won | Sonawar Live Election Results 2014, Jk Elections Results, Jk Election News". ndtv.com. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
  7. ↑ "Kashmir Floods-2014". www.ndtv.com. 8 September 2014.
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