Infrastructure[edit]

The growth of Virar is yet to be seen in full as the quadrupling of the railway line between Borivali and Virar has just taken place in 2007. The railways are still pleading the lack of sufficient number of rakes to take full advantage of the quadrupling.

The city has seen a lot of development in the past 5 years. The Municipal Council was upgraded to Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation in May 2009. There are various housing and road transport development projects initiated by the corporation with the help of MMRDA, Mumbai. The skywalk in the west section of the city was one of the first amongst the many skywalks that were built near all the railway stations of Mumbai.[9] It was the seventh skywalk in the city and it cost INR 91.5 million. Virar-West skywalk is 589 meters long with four meters wide walkway. The skywalk was found to be the busiest amongst the others built by the MMRDA by recording a footfall of 58,038 commuters during peak hours. It was followed by Santa Cruz skywalk with a figure of 37,546.[10]

The Virar East skywalk is uniquely built as it goes right over the Totale lake, situated in the backdrop of the huge VVMC corporation building. A viewing tourist gallery is built in the middle of the 285 m long skywalk.

Virar-Alibaug Corridor Project is a project undertaken by the MMRDA. The Rs 10,000-crore project is expected to provide seamless connectivity by the metro as well as by road from Alibaug to Virar. The corridor will bypass the western and eastern suburbs and also the routes which will witness growth in the future. The proposed alignment will connect four crucial national highways, NH8 (Mumbai-Ahmedabad), NH3 (Mumbai-Agra-Delhi), NH4 (Mumbai-Chennai) and NH17 (Goa-Mangalore-Kerala). The MMRDA has claimed that the 140-km corridor will reduce the long commute to barely an hour. Phase-I of the corridor will be of 90 km from Virar to Panvel. Phase-II will be of 50 km from Panvel to Alibaug.[11]

Governance[edit]

Virar falls under the jurisdiction of the newly created Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation (VVMC). It primarily comes in the Nalla Sopara constituency for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections and in the Palghar constituency for the Lok Sabha elections. For all the three seats, the ruling party, Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi (BVA) has showed its dominance over the past few decades. The BVA has won 55 seats out of the 89 in the VVMC; thus Virar elected its first Mayor in the form of Shri. Rajeev Patil who was also the ex-President of the preceding Virar Municipal Council. For the Legislative Assembly seat, Kshitij Thakur, a BVA candidate and the son of ex-MLA of the region, Hitendra Thakur, won the seat in 2009, defeating Shirish Chavan of the Shiv Sena by more than 40,000 votes at just 26 years of age.[12] Earlier in the 15th Lok Sabha elections, people voted for Baliram Sukur Jadhav, also a BVA candidate, from the Palghar constituency, who went on to become the Member of Parliament representing the region, defeating a Bharatiya Janata Party rival, advocate Chintaman Vanga, by 12,358 votes.[13]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Western Railways - Mumbai Suburban Locals".
  2. ^ "Vasai-Virar climate: Average Temperature, weather by month, Vasai-Virar weather averages - Climate-Data.org". en.climate-data.org. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Web Data".
  4. ^ "51st Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India" (PDF). nclm.nic.in. Ministry of Minority Affairs. 15 July 2015. p. 151. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2018. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  5. ^ "The East-Indians of Agashi". east-indians.net. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  6. ^ "Agashi Temple – Virar - Jain Temple at Agashi Virar". Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  7. ^ "Great Escape at Virar – Mumbai - Great Water Park". Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  8. ^ "Bollywood star tops the poll". BBC News. 1 July 1999. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
  9. ^ Swapnil Rawal (17 December 2007). "After Bandra, MMRDA plans skywalk at Virar". Express India. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  10. ^ Ninad Siddhaye (10 April 2010). "MMRDA claims record footfalls on six skywalks". India Info. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  11. ^ Ninad Siddhaye (6 October 2010). "Virar-Alibaug corridor to be aligned by December". DNA. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  12. ^ Sudhaanshu Atalye (23 October 2009). "It's Thakur junior in Nalasopara now". DNA. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  13. ^ Sandhya Nair (17 May 2009). "Virar muscle wins tribal seat". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2011.

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