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Secunderabad
Secunderabad () is a twin cities, twin city of Hyderabad and one of the six zones of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) in the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Telangana. It is the headquarters of the South Central Railway zone. Named after the Mir Akbar Ali Khan Sikander Jah, Asaf Jah III, Nizam of Hyderabad, Nizam of the Asaf Jahi dynasty, Secunderabad was established in 1806 as a British cantonment. Although both the cities are together referred to as the twin cities, Hyderabad and Secunderabad have different histories and cultures, with Secunderabad having developed directly under British Raj, British rule until 1948, and Hyderabad as the capital of the Nizams' Hyderabad State, princely state of Hyderabad. Since 1956, the city has housed the Rashtrapati Nilayam, the winter office of the president of India. It is also the headquarters of the 54th Infantry Division (India), 54th Infantry Division of the Indian Army. There are also many resid ...
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Secunderabad Cantonment Board
Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) is the civic administrative agency of Secunderabad cantonment area. Geographically, it lies in the twin cities of Hyderabad-Secunderabad. Secunderabad Cantonment Board is India’s second largest cantonment board, after Bathinda Cantonment. There are eight civilian wards in Secunderabad Cantonment Board, with a population of four lakh. Being primarily a Indian Armed Forces, military area, the Secunderabad cantonment comes under the administrative purview of the Ministry of Defence (India), union defence ministry of the government of India. It oversees an area of , where there are several military camps. Secunderabad Cantonment has a huge land bank (about 18,350 acres), which has been protected since the British era. Demographics census of India, it had a population of 217,910 and an area of with 50,333 households. The infrastructure management and administration of the civilian areas in the cantonment are looked after by the Board. As pe ...
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South Central Railway Zone
South Central Railway (abbreviated SCR) is one of the 19 zones of Indian Railways. The jurisdiction of the zone is spread over the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Karnataka. It has three divisions under its administration, which include Secunderabad railway division, Secunderabad, Hyderabad railway division, Hyderabad and Nanded railway division, Nanded. Secunderabad, Telangana is the Zonal headquarter History Ex MP Bayya Suryanarayana Murthy requested the creation of a new railway zone. The zone was formed on 2 October 1966 by merging the carved-out divisions of Hubli railway division, Hubli, Vijayawada railway division, Vijayawada of Southern Railway zone and Solapur railway division, Solapur, Secunderabad railway division, Secunderabad of Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway. On 2 October 1977, Guntakal division of Southern Railway zone was merged and the already merged division of Solapur was demerged from the zone and became part of its former Central Rail ...
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Secunderabad Clock Tower
Secunderabad Clock Tower is a clock tower located in the Secunderabad region of Hyderabad, India. Constructed in 1860 on of land, the structure was inaugurated on 1 February 1897. History A firman issued by Nizam Sikandar Jah established the city of Secunderabad after his name in 1806. To honour the progress achieved by the British officers stationed at Secunderabad Cantonment in Hyderabad, the erstwhile British government established of land for this purpose in 1860. A 120-ft high clock tower was constructed in a park of in 1896. The tower was inaugurated by Resident Sir Trevor John Chichele Plowden on 1 February 1897. The clock on the tower was donated by Dewan Bahadur Seth Lachmi Narayan Ramgopal, a businessman. In 2003, the tower was placed on a demolition list drawn up by the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad to accommodate the increasing traffic. A senior official at this civic agency of the Government of Andhra Pradesh said that they were trying their best not t ...
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Hyderabad
Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much of Hyderabad is situated on hilly terrain around Lakes in Hyderabad, artificial lakes, including the Hussain Sagar lake, predating the city's founding, in the north of the city centre. According to the 2011 census of India, Hyderabad is the List of cities in India by population, fourth-most populous city in India with a population of residents within the city limits, and has a population of residents in the Hyderabad Metropolitan Region, metropolitan region, making it the List of metropolitan areas in India, sixth-most populous metropolitan area in India. With an output of  95 billion, Hyderabad has the sixth-largest urban economy in India. The Qutb Shahi dynasty's Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah established Hyderabad in 1591 to extend the ...
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Padma Rao Goud
Theegulla Padma Rao Goud (born 7 May 1954) is an Indian politician who is the current and 2nd Deputy Speaker of the Telangana Legislative Assembly from 24 February 2019 and Member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly from Secunderabad Constituency from 2 June 2014. He was the minister of Excise, Sports, Prohibition from 2014 to 2018 in Telangana. Early life Padma Rao was born on 7 April 1954 in Secunderabad. He studied till Intermediate in Govt. Junior College, SP Road, Secunderabad. Political career He entered politics after education and served as a Municipal Councillor in 1984 & 2001 ( Hyderabad Municipal Corporation). Later in 2001 he joined Bharat Rashtra Samithi The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (; BRS), formerly known as Telangana Rashtra Samithi ( TRS), is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in the state of Telangana and currently the primary opposition party in the state. It was founde .... He won from Secunderabad Assembly constituency in 2004 As ...
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Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is the civic body that oversees Hyderabad, the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It is the local government for the city of Hyderabad. It is one of the largest municipal corporations in India with a population of 7.9 million and an area of 650 km2. History Hyderabad Municipal Board (1869–1933) In 1869, municipal administration was first introduced for the city of Hyderabad. The city of Hyderabad was divided into four and the suburbs of Chaderghat were divided into five divisions. The whole management of both the city and the suburbs was handled by the then City Police Commissioner, Kotwal-e-Baldia. Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (1933–2007) In 1933, Chaderghat Municipality was merged with Hyderabad Municipality to form Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and was given statutory status under the Hyderabad Municipal Act. During the following year (1934), the first elections were held for Mu ...
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List Of Hyderabad Metro Stations
This is the list of stations of the Hyderabad Metro, a rapid transit system serving the city of Hyderabad in Telangana, India. , there are 57 metro stations in the network, which were completed and operational as a part of Phase I, making it the second longest operational metro network in India after Delhi Metro. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Hyderabad Metro on 29 November 2017 by opening a 30 km stretch from Miyapur to Nagole, making it the longest stretch commissioned in the first phase among all metros in India. It has since been expanded to around of route length. The system is operated by the Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMRL). Stations display signboards in Telugu, English, Hindi and Urdu. All stations of Hyderabad Metro Rail are equipped with a tactile pathway from street level to the platform level, along with elevator buttons equipped with Braille, for providing barrier-less navigation for visually impaired commuters. Each line of the Hyderab ...
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Telangana
Telangana is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated in the Southern India, south-central part of the Indian subcontinent on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, eleventh largest state by area and the List of states and union territories of India by population, twelfth most populated state in India, according to the 2011 Census of India, 2011 census. On 2 June 2014, the area was separated from the northwestern part of United Andhra Pradesh as the newly formed States and union territories of India, state of Telangana, with Hyderabad as its capital. Telugu language, Telugu, one of the classical languages of India, is the most widely spoken and the primary official language of Telangana state, whereas Urdu is recognised as the second official language. Additionally, several tribal languages such as Gondi, Kolami, Koya and Lambadi are spoken in different regions of the Telangana state. The economy of ...
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Hyderabad State
Hyderabad State () was a princely state in the Deccan region of south-central India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and the Marathwada region of Maharashtra in India. The state was ruled from 1724 to 1948 by the Nizam, who was initially a viceroy of the Mughal empire in the Deccan. Hyderabad gradually became the first princely state to come under British paramountcy signing a subsidiary alliance agreement. During the British rule in 1901, the state had a revenue of 4,17,00,000. The native inhabitants of Hyderabad State, regardless of ethnic origin, are called "Mulki" (countryman), a term still used today. The dynasty declared itself an independent monarchy during the final years of the British Raj. After the Partition of India, Hyderabad signed a standstill agreement with the new dominion of India, continuing all previous arrangements except for the stat ...
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Cantonment
A cantonment (, , or ) is a type of military base. In South Asia, a ''cantonment'' refers to a permanent military station (a term from the British Raj). In United States military parlance, a cantonment is, essentially, "a permanent residential section (i.e., barrack) of a fort or other military installation". The word ''cantonment'', derived from the French word '' canton'', meaning ''corner'' or ''district'', refers to a temporary military or winter encampment. For example, at the start of the Waterloo campaign in 1815, while the Duke of Wellington's headquarters were in Brussels, most of his Anglo–allied army of 93,000 soldiers were ''cantoned'', or stationed, to the south of Brussels. List of permanent cantonments Afghanistan The former Sherpur Cantonment in Kabul, Afghanistan, which was the site of the Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment (1879) in the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880), is now maintained as a British Army cemetery. Bangladesh In Bangladesh, cantonment ...
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Mir Akbar Ali Khan Sikander Jah, Asaf Jah III
Sikander Jah, Asaf Jah III (11 November 1768 – 21 May 1829), was the 3rd Nizam of Hyderabad, India from 1803 to 1829. He was born in Chowmahalla Palace in the Khilwath, the second son of Asaf Jah II and Tahniat un-nisa Begum. Family ;Consorts One of his wives was Jahan Parwar Begum, also known as Hajji Begum. She was the daughter of Azim ul-Umara also known as Ma'ali Mian and Farzand Begum. She was the granddaughter of Aristu Jah, from whom she inherited Purani Haveli (lit. "Old mansion"), and the niece of Munir ul-Mulk. She was the mother of Mir Tafazzul Ali Khan, also known as Mir Badsha, and Namdar-un-Nisa Begum. She died on 21 May 1853. Another wife was Fazilat-un-nisa Begum also known as Chandni Begum. She was the mother of Nasir-ud-Daulah and Mubarez-ud-Daulah. ;Daughters * Jamal-un-Nisa Begum (died 22 March 1855, buried near her husband), married to Rafi-ud-Daulah, the brother of Safdar-ud-Daulah, the Nizam of Surat; * Kamal-un-Nisa Begum, married to Mir Moin-un-Din ...
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Twin Cities
Twin cities are a special case of two neighboring cities or urban centres that grow into a single conurbation – or narrowly separated urban areas – over time. There are no formal criteria, but twin cities are generally comparable in status and size, though not necessarily equal; a city and a substantially smaller suburb would not typically qualify, even if they were once separate. Tri-cities and quad cities are similar groups of three or four municipalities. A common – but not universal – scenario is two cities that developed concurrently on opposite sides of a river. For example, Minneapolis and Saint Paul in Minnesota – one of the most widely known pairs of "Twin Cities" – were founded several miles apart on opposite sides of the Mississippi River, and competed for prominence as they grew. In some cases, twin cities are separated by a state border, such as Albury (New South Wales) and Wodonga ( Victoria) in Australia, on opposite sides of the Murray River. ...
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