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Maninagar
neighbourhood
Country India
StateGujarat
MetroAhmedabad
Government
 • BodyAhmedabad Municipal Corporation
Elevation
53 m (174 ft)
Languages
 • OfficialGujarati, Hindi
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
380 008
Vehicle registrationGJ-1-XX-XXXX (Former), GJ-27-XX-XXXX (Current)
Civic agencyAhmedabad Municipal Corporation

Maninagar is an area of Ahmedabad city, Gujarat, India. It is located in the southern part of the city. It can be divided into two regions - Maninagar East and Maninagar West, separated by the Maninagar Railway Station.

History

Maninagar was originally a Land that belonged to Seth Maneklal Manilal, a powerful banker. He donated a big piece of this land to develop the first organized settlement outside the walled city. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel created the first town planning scheme for Manipur, now called Maninagar.[1][2]

Cityscape

The Kankaria lake and Nagina Wadi are situated in this area. This area also hosts a train station on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai line where most of the major trains stop.

Maninagar is also the entrance to the Ahmedabad Vadodara expressway.

Education

There are many schools in Maninagar including; [J.L. High School, Maninagar], Seventh Day Adventist Higher Secondary School, Reubs High School, Nelson High School, Shri Durga Vidhyalaya High School, Gurunanak & Chandraketu Pandya English Medium School, Diwan-Ballubhai School, Doon International School, Best High School, Shree Sardar Patel & Swami Vivekanand High school, Hebron High School. Colleges include AMC Dental College, AMC Medical College, B.J. Medical College, Ahmedabad, K.K Shastri Govt. College, National Institute of Design (NID)

Sports

Physical Ground is a multi-sports stadium situated in Khokhra. It was inaugurated in the year 2010. The stadium serves place to play sports like cricket, football, badminton, chess, wrestling, judo, and basketball.

In the month of March 2011, Gujarat state level; chess competition, 200 m running, kabbadi, cricket and badminton were held

It was one of the centers for Khel-Maha-kumbh that was held in 2011 by Government of Gujarat.

Member of Legislative Assembly

2002-2012

Year Member Political Party
style="background-color: Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" | 2002-07 Narendra Modi Bharatiya Janata Party
style="background-color: Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" | 2007-12 Narendra Modi Bharatiya Janata Party
style="background-color: Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" | 2012-2014 Narendra Modi Bharatiya Janata Party

Election Results

2012

Gujarat assembly elections, 2012: Maninagar[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Narendra Damodardas Modi 1,50,000 76.38
INC Sweta Sanjiv Bhatt 32,097 15.34
BSP Siddhant Yasvantray Kashyap 1,251 0.78
Majority 1,36,373 34.04
Turnout 1,59,807 70.78
BJP hold Swing

References

  1. ^ "History of Maninagar".
  2. ^ "Maninagar founder's haveli restored".
  3. ^ "Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2012" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-03-02.