Dashrath puri

Dashrath Puri
town
Dashrath Puri
Location in India
Coordinates: 28°36′18″N 77°05′11″E / 28.605105°N 77.086397°E / 28.605105; 77.086397Coordinates: 28°36′18″N 77°05′11″E / 28.605105°N 77.086397°E / 28.605105; 77.086397
Country  India
State Delhi
Languages
 • Official Hindi, English
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN 110045
Telephone code 011
Lok Sabha constituency West Delhi
Vidhan Sabha constituency Dwarka

Dashrath Puri is a small colony consisting of around 1000 houses situated on Dabri-Palam road in South West Delhi, India. Currently this colony comes under Dwarka (Earlier it was under Nasirpur constituency which is dissolved due to delimitation) and West Delhi (Earlier it was under Outer Delhi parliamentary constituency which is dissolved due to delimitation). Schools : Jindal Public School Coaching Centre : A.K Institute of Studies,Street no 4 Dabri Village

Neighbourhood

Dashrath puri is located close to other colonies of New Delhi such as Janakpuri, Vikaspuri, Dwarka Sub City as well as the Indira Gandhi International Airport. IT city of India, Gurgaon is at a distance of half an hour from Dashrath puri.

Politics

Dashrath Puri's MLA is Adarsh Shastri of Aam Aadmi Party and Member of Parliament is Parvesh Verma of BJP.

People

Although it is a very small colony people from different parts of India live here. The population mainly consists of people from India Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Utarrakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, West Bengal.

Accessibility

  • Dashrath puri has a well connected road network.
  • Nearest Metro Station is Dashrath Puri.
  • Nearest railway station is Palam and Delhi Cantt. railway station.
  • Major DTC Bus Routes touches Dashrath puri are 721, 761, 778, 801, RL-75, RL-77, RL-79 etc. In addition to this there are other RTVs & Metro feeder vehicles are operating with lower frequencies.
  • DTC Bus Route no. 721 to ISBT Kashmiri Gate, 761 to Uttam Nagar, Janakpuri, Vikaspuri, Peeragarhi, Rohini, Pitam Pura & Azad Pur & RL-77 to New Delhi Railway Station respectively are the most frequent bus services from Dashrath puri.

Proposed metro station

Dashrath Puri is a proposed metro station in the third phase of the Delhi Metro network on new line from Janakpuri (west) to Botanical Garden in Noida.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rumu Banerjee (18 April 2011) Metro to bring IGI closer to West Delhi. Times of India
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