Vimanapura or Baiyyappanahalli Vimanapura is an eastern suburb of

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. It is so called because it is near Bangalore HAL airport. Vimanapura houses many of the

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offices and the HAL hospital. The busy

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goes through it.

History

Old Baiyyappanahalli Baiyyappanahalli Manavarthe Kaval or Old Baiyyappanahalli is one of the early settlements in Bengaluru. It is part of C. V. Raman Nagar Assembly constituency in East Bengaluru. This former village was included in the Bangalore Mahanagara Pali ...

, a village in Bangalore South Taluk, was called as Baiyyappanahalli Manavarthe Kaval populated with 2742 inhabitants (1429 Male and 1313 Female) in 1981 and was considered as uninhabited during 1991 Census. It was merged with Vimanapura (which was then called as Baiyyappanahalli Vimanapura) which hosted 11441 citizens (6157 Male and 5284 Female) in 1981. Baiyyappanahalli NMCT (Non Municipal Census Town) consisted of Baiyyappanahalli Manavarthe Kaval, Benniganahalli and Baiyyappanahalli Vimanapura and was a home to 14905 persons (7873 Male and 7032 Female) during 1991 Census. In January 2007, the Karnataka Government issued a notification to merge the areas under then Bangalore Mahanagara Palike with seven City municipal council (CMC)'s, one Town municipal council (TMC) and 110 villages around the city (including Baiyyappanahalli NMCT) to form a single administrative body,

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. The process was completed by April 2007 and the body was renamed

(Greater Bangalore Municipal Corporation).

Transport

Metro station

Baiyappanahalli metro station Baiyappanahalli metro station at Baiyyappanahalli is the eastern terminal point on the east–west corridor of the Namma Metro in Bangalore, India. Station layout **Currently Platforms 1 and 2 are under maintenance due to Purple Line ext ...

is the eastern terminal point on the east–west corridor of the

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. Baiyappanahalli also hosts the Coaching depot for Metro service. It is about 7 miles east of the old center of Bangalore. Its name is

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for "

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Town"; see

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. Many

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es are based there. The

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has a base there. It is well connected by many BMTC buses. From Kempegowda bus station (Majestic bus stand), one can take route number 333 buses to reach Vimanapura. One of the important roads here is ''Suranjan Das Road''. This road connects the Airport Road to Old Madras Road. On one side of this road are the HAL quarters (housing colony) and on the other side are the HAL offices. This road also houses the HAL hospital, HAL market, BEML and also in the middle has Sadbhavana Park, with a beautiful walking track. Other localities which are part of the Vimanapura area are Annasandrapalya, Basava Nagar, Islampura, Jagadish Nagar, Jyothi Nagar, Lal Bahadur Shastri Nagar (L. B. Shastri Nagar), Nellurupura, Ramesh Nagar, Reddypalya and Vibhutipura. L. B. Shastri Nagar has many apartments and has a park (Uthkarsh park). The park is privately maintained by th
Uthkarsh
community who are a group of individuals dedicated to making a positive difference to the surrounding civic conditions.

Examples of organizations with premises in Vimanapura

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Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine
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References

External links

map of the area aroundGoogle Earth view of Vimanapura and around
Neighbourhoods in Bangalore {{BangaloreUrban-geo-stub