Gulmohar Park is a neighbourhood in

South Delhi South Delhi is an administrative district of the National Capital Territory of Delhi in India with its headquarters in Saket. Administratively, the district is divided into three subdivisions, Saket, Hauz Khas, and Mehrauli. It is bounded by t ...

. This park lies between Hauz Khas and Gautam Nagar and is named after the red-flowered Gulmohar trees ('' Delonix regia'') growing inside. The nearby residential colony is known as Gulmohar Park Journalists' Colony or simply Gulmohar Park for short, and was established by a group of journalists in the 1970s and is today home to business people, senior lawyers and cine star Amitabh Bachchan's Delhi residence. Gulmohar Park is surrounded by Balbir Saxena Marg and Hauz Khas to the south,

Yusuf Sarai Yusuf Sarai is a locality in South Delhi. It lies on the Sri Aurobindo Marg close to AIIMS, New Delhi, and accommodates both residential as well as market places . It is named after historic Yusuf Sarai, one of many sarais (inns or rest hous ...

Gulmohar enclave Gulmohar Enclave is a posh neighborhood in South Delhi. It is adjacent to Gulmohar Park. It is a colony of 300 apartments and was constructed in 1983 by the Delhi Development Authority. It is now owned by the residents. Gulmohar Enclave is loc ...

and Gautam Nagar to the west, Neeti Bagh to the north and August Kranti Marg and

Siri Fort Siri Fort, in the city of New Delhi, was built during the rule of Alauddin Khalji, second ruler of Khalji Dynasty, of Delhi Sultanate to defend the city from the onslaught of the Mongols. It was the second of the seven cities of medieval Delhi bu ...

to the east. The colony covers and has 13 parks inside. It is divided into four blocks (A, B, C and D) and also contains a DDA market and a residents' club (Gulmohar Club). Inside the colony is a police post, part of the Defence Colony Police Station.

Points of interest

Nearby landmarks include

Siri Fort Auditorium Siri Fort Auditorium is premier multi-auditorium complex of Government of India. Situated in the Siri Fort in New Delhi, it is also the headquarters of the Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, which a ...

Sports Complex,

All India Institute of Medical Sciences The All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is a group of autonomous government public medical universities of higher education under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare , Government of India. These institutes ha ...

, National Institute of Fashion Technology, HUDCO Place and

Community Centre.

Accessibility

Indira Gandhi International Airport Indira Gandhi International Airport is the primary international airport serving Delhi, the capital of India, and the National Capital Region (NCR). The airport, spread over an area of , is situated in Palam, Delhi, southwest of the New ...

(Terminal 1 - Domestic) is 12.9 km from Gulmohar Park.

(Terminal 2 - International) is 19.87 km from Gulmohar Park.

Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station (station code: NZM) is a railway station in South Delhi, India. It is under the administrative control of the Delhi Division of the Northern Railway zone of the Indian Railways. It is one of the five main s ...

is 9.98 km from Gulmohar Park

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20101005042054/http://gulmoharclub.com/ {{Neighborhoods of Delhi, state=expanded Parks in Delhi Neighbourhoods in Delhi