VIRAR

      Virar (Pronunciation: [ʋiɾaɾ]) is a coastal city in taluka Vasai and district of Palghar. It is clubbed into Vasai-Virar city, administered by Vasai-Virar Municiple Corporation . It lies north to the city of Mumbai. It is a part of the outermost Mumbai  Metropolitan Region.

Virar Railway Station is one of the prominent[1] railway station on the Western Line of Mumbai Subarban Railway due to being the northern-most station on the line with high frequency of local-train transit.

Virar City is governed by Municipal Corporation and is situated in Maharashtra State/UT. As per provisional reports if Census India, population of Virar in 2011 is 1,222,390; of which male and female are 648,172 and 574,218 respectively.





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
  Geography [ edit ] Virar lies on the western coast of  Maharashtra , to the north of Mumbai and experiences warm, humid climate throughout the year. The average annual temperature in the city hovers around 26.5 to 27.0 °C (79.7 to 80.6 °F). July is the wettest month while January is the driest. [2] The closest airports to Vasai-Virar are Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport  (BOM) 37.15 km (23.08 mi) Pune Airport  (PNQ) 148.81 km (92.47 mi) Surat Airport (STV) 188.29 km (117.00 mi) History and culture [ edit ] This section  does not  cite  any  sources .  Please help  improve this section  by  adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and  removed .   ( October 2013 )  ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) The name  Virar , as some believe, comes from the  Hindu  Goddess  Ekvira , mother o...
Read more
Image
  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 footf...
Read more