Padmanabhanagar is a posh residential locality in South
Bangalore
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, covering an area of 1.68 km
2 It's one of the
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BBMP. Padmanabhanagar has a very famous park called Lakshmikanta Park. This park houses Lakshmi Kantha temple. It was looked after by residents association, in 2018 the corporator allotted funds and developed it further. The park was eyed for its medicinal trees and was sanctioned to be cut down completely and set up a landscaped area but the senior citizens of the locality who nurtured the park protested and stopped it. It is surrounded by
Kumaraswamy Layout
Located in South Bangalore, Kumaraswamy Layout is a sub locality in Banashankari.
History
Kumaraswamy Layout was formed in the late 1970s by the BDA. This area under BBMP is recently seeing development. This is one of the rapidly growing ar ...
,
Gowdanapalya
Gowdanapalya is one of the residential localities in Bangalore, India. It is situated in the south of the city, very close to the highway leading to Kanakapura. It is surrounded by Kumaraswamy Layout, Padmanabhanagar, Kadirenahalli, Uttarahalli ...
, Chennamanakere, Kathriguppe, Kadirenahalli,
Uttarahalli
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and Chikkakalasandra.
It is a constituency in the
Karnataka legislative assembly
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. The assembly constituency has several areas surrounding Padmanabhanagara like Kumaraswamy Layout, Yediyur, Tyagarajanagara, Banashankari 2nd stage, Yarab Nagara, parts of Banashankari temple ward, Jayanagara 6th/7th/8th blocks, Shastri Nagara. The constituency is currently represented by Shri R Ashoka (Bharathiya Janata Party). Padmanabhanagara is also a ward constituency in BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike ward No. 182) which was represented by Smt. L Shobha Anjanappa of BJP (Bharathiya Janata Party), in the immediate past term.
Education
Among its educational institutions are:
*
Carmel School
* Prarthana School
* Deccan International School
* Sri Kumarans Children's home(SKCH) Composite PU college
* Jnana Vijnana Vidya Peeta
Health
*
Maharaja Agrasen Hospital (Bangalore)
Maharaja Agrasen Hospital in Bangalore, India, situated in 15 Main, 17 Cross, Padmanabhanagar, South Bangalore, Karnataka - 560070, near Shanimahathma Temple
It is a multi-speciality hospital built in the year 2001
The Hospital is also listed ...
* D.G Hospital
* Yogananda Multi Speciality Hospital
* Motherhood (opposite KIMS)
* Agarwal Eye Hospital
* Medall Clumax Diagnostics
* Hillside Hospital
Notable residents
*
H.D. Deve Gowda,
Janata Dal (Secular) leader and former
Prime Minister of India
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Nissar Ahmed, Kannada writer
Transport
The area is well connected by the BMTC bus network.
*Bus routes to Kempegowda Bus Terminus include 12B, 12C, 210N, 210NA, 210NB, 210ND, 210NF, 210P, 210J, 210KA, 210W, 210I.
*Bus routes to KR Market include 15A, 210N, 210NA.
*Bus routes to Shivajinagara include 13B, 182, 210H.
*Bus route to Bhoopasandra - 279F.
*Bus route to Kamala Nagara BEML Layout - TR-10 (210N-96D)
*Nearest Namma Metro station is ''Banashankari'' (on the Green line).
References
External links
About Padmanabhanagar at Bangalorelookup
Neighbourhoods in Bangalore
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