Devara Jeevanahalli (or spelled as Devarajeevanahalli and popularly known as DJ Halli) is a locality in North
Bangalore
Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...
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India
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,adjoining
Bangalore Cantonment
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and
R. T. Nagar
Rabindranath Tagore Nagar or simply R. T. Nagar is an area in Bangalore, India. It is situated in the northern part of the city. It is named after Rabindranath Tagore. It is part of the Bangalore North (Lok Sabha constituency), Bangalore North L ...
.The locality is part of
Pulakeshinagar Assembly constituency
Pulakeshinagar Assembly constituency is one of the 224 constituencies in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly of Karnataka a south state of India. It is also part of Bangalore North (Lok Sabha constituency), Bangalore North Lok Sabha constituency. ...
and
Bangalore North Lok Sabha constituency. It is one of the largest slums in Bangalore.
Often referred to as a sensitive area having seen its share of communal tension, the locality saw one its biggest violence in Bangalore when police station and other public property were damaged during the
riots in 2020. The first Police station in the area was inaugurated in 2016. In 2016, over 350 school children at the Government Urdu Higher Primary School from Devara Jeevanahalli complained about having food poisoning and were hospitalized after having mid-day meals.
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Neighbourhoods in Bangalore