Indira Nagar is a residential area in the city of

Srinagar Srinagar (; ) is a city in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by the tertiary ...

in the

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. It used to be a

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before but now only a few hundred meters of the lake are left. This area comes under the control of

Badami Bagh Badami Bagh or Badam Bagah is a cantonment town on the outskirts of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Established in the 1920s as military barracks on a site containing several ancient Hindu and Budhhist ruins near Pandrethan, the Badami Ba ...

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along with other areas like Batwara, Shivpora, and Sonwar Bagh. The cantonment is responsible for maintaining the roads, street lights, and other infrastructure, unlike other areas of Srinagar, which are maintained by the Srinagar Municipal Corporation.

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s, and

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s live in the area. Over the years, this area has been commercialised by the construction of many hotels. It is located about from the commercial hub of Kashmir,

Lal Chowk Lal Chowk () is a city square in Srinagar, in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The square was given its name by left-wing activists who were inspired by the Russian Revolution as they fought the princely stateMaharaja, Hari Si ...

. Indira Nagar is near G.B. Pant Children's Hospital. The pincode is 190004. This area falls under the Sonwar constituency, for which the MLA is Mohammad Ashraf Mir.

2014 Kashmir Flood

Indira Nagar was one of many areas of Srinagar, including Shivpora,

Jawahar Nagar Jawahar Nagar (), named after the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, is a developed residential area in North Chennai, a metropolitan city in Tamil Nadu, India. Location Jawahar Nagar is located near Kolathur, Peravallur and Pe ...

Rajbagh Rajbagh is a notified area in the municipal committee of Srinagar, in the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It comes under the Lal chowk constituency. Rajbagh is a posh locality in the Civil Lines area of Srinagar. The postal code of ...

, Gogji Bagh, Pandrathan, and Batwara, that were among the worst hit by the 2014 Kashmir floods. Indira Nagar was completely submerged for more than 30 days. Many houses were damaged or destroyed due to the floods, but only a few people were killed. The water started to enter Indira Nagar at about 4:00 am because of a breach in the Jhelum River bund. It took just a few hours to reach for the water level to rise and fill more than one and a half storeys. After the floods, people returned to their homes, began cleaning up, and resumed their routines, though life remained difficult.

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Hotels * Hotel The Grand Plaza * Hotel Indra * Hotel Hill View * Hotel Mountain View * Hotel Rash Residency * Hotel Akbar Inn * Hotel Rotana * Hotel Gulfam * Hotel Muskaan * Hotel Silverine * Hotel Ground Plaza * Hotel Fortune Inn * Heritage Studio Boutique guest House

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* Sonwar Bagh *

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