Coordinates: 19.155N 72.

85E

Goregaon
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For the town, see Goregaon, Raigad district.

Goregaon is a locality of the Mumbai city, in the Mumbai
Suburban district, India. It is a railway station on the
Mumbai suburban railway on the Western Line. An
extension of the Harbour Line is under construction, to be
completed by 2016.

Goregaon

suburb

Bracketed on either side of the railway line by the

Western Express Highway and Link Road, Goregaon
was primarily a middle-class residential neighbourhood.
However, the area is now turning into a wealthy suburb.
Famous film studios such as Filmistan and Film City are
located here.[1]

Contents
1 Areas
2 Transport
3 Early history
4 Nature and Conservation
5 Hospitals and Medical Centres
6 Schools
7 Colleges
8 References
9 External links

The Oberoi Mall and Commerz tower (Westin Hotel),

Goregaon, Mumbai.

Goregaon

Areas
Until the late 1970s, the suburb was sparsely populated
which began to change with residential localities that
sprung up such as Unnat Nagar Vibhag 1 to 4, Jawahar
Nagar, Motilal Nagar, Bangur Nagar, Shastri Nagar,
Lokmanya Tilak Nagar Road 1 to 6 (earlier Peoples
Colony), Siddharth Nagar, BEST Colony, Piramal
Nagar, Mahesh Nagar and Madina Manzil in the West
and Pandurang Wadi and Jaiprakash Nagar in the East.
The eastern boundary of the suburb was effectively the
Western Express Highway, which separated Goregaon
from Aarey Milk Colony. Aarey Milk Colony,

Coordinates: 19.155N 72.85E

Country
State
District
Metro
Government

India
Maharashtra
Mumbai Suburban
Mumbai

established in 1949 and spread over an area of 1,287

hectares, houses thirty two cattle farms, gardens, a
nursery, lakes, an observation pavilion, picnic facilities,
and milk plants.
The housing boom of the 1980s saw expansion in terms
of real estate and population density. On the East, newer
areas such as Dindoshi, Gokuldham, Yashodham,
Saibaba Complex, Oberoi Garden City Film City Road,
Amritvan, etc. and on the West, Bangur Nagar,
Lokhandwala Complex (now considered a separate
suburb) and Link Road were the development hubs.

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Languages
Official
Time zone
Vehicle
registration
Lok Sabha
constituency
Vidhan Sabha
constituency

Municipal Corporation of Greater

Mumbai (MCGM)

Marathi
IST (UTC+5:30)
MH-02
Mumbai North West
Goregaon (covers western part of the
suburb)

Dindoshi (covers eastern part of the

suburb)
Besides the above, Goregaon (E) also is home to the
recently developed area known as New Dindoshi
consisting of the Nagari Nivara Parishad (NNP), a housing scheme for the lower middle class. There are more than

30,000 people living at NNP, distributed between two zones.[1]

Oberoi Garden City, which has started developing recently, is spread across 80 acres, next to Saibaba Complex. It
includes Oberoi Mall, home to the second Starbucks coffee shop opened in Mumbai and also Westin Hotel and
Offices. Many other residential and business towers are also being developed.
Goregaon East is the home of Yashodham High School and Gokuldham High School, also St.Thomas High School
which is the oldest English medium school in Goregaon East.

Transport
Goregaon Railway Station is the transport hub of Goregaon. The station,
which currently has five platforms, is being expanded as a part of the
Harbour Line extension (under MUTP 2) from Andheri.[2] The
expansion, involving two additional platforms and an elevated deck with
passenger amenities (on the western side of the existing station) is
expected to be complete by 2015. A recently constructed sky walk
connects one of the foot-over-bridges to S. V. Road near 'Citi Centre'- a
Gokuldham in Goregaon (East)
shopping complex near the M. G. Road junction. BEST has bus stations
on both western as well as eastern side of the railway station. Goregaon
Depot, however, is located away from the railway station, on the Link Road.

Early history
What is now known as Goregoan Suburb is a conglomeration of four villages: Pahadi, Goregaon, Aarey and Eksar.
Goregaon got the railway station in 1862. The suburb was one of the four railway stations between Borivali and
Grant Road and was known as Pahadi or Pare.[3] The name of the railway station was subsequently changed to
avoid confusing it with Paradi, a railway station in South Gujarat on BB&CI (now Western Railway). On official
records, the name of tehasil still appears as Pahadi Goregaon.

The prime land under the mango and guava plantation owned by the Topiwala Desai family was taken over by the
Maharashtra government and handed over to the Mumbai Housing Board during the 1950s.
That Goregaon is named after a former resident of the area named Keshav Gore is a popular misconception. The
name 'Goregaon' predates the Gores.[4] However, the Gore husband and wife pair (Keshav and Mrinal), who were
staunch socialists, remain inspirational figures to local residents, even after death.[1]

Nature and Conservation

Goregaon bounds Sanjay Gandhi National Park from the south-western side and is home to the Conservation
Education Centre (CEC) run by the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS).[5] The area is home to a diverse
flora and fauna.
Recent 'development' on the eastern side has led to a huge amount of
deforestation. Leopard sightings and even the occasional
attacks[6][7][8][9] are not very rare- and not just in the hamlets inside the
Aarey Milk Colony but also in large residential colonies like Nagari
Nivara Parishad. Rampant construction in the last decade by builders like
Oberoi on green areas has, without a doubt, had a severe impact on local
biodiveristy.

Hospitals and Medical Centres

Clemscok Group
Kapadia Nursing Home
Life Line Medicare Hospital
Matushree Gomati Hospital
Prarthana Hospital and ICU
Radha Krishna Hospital
Sabnis Hospital
Sai Diagnostic Pathological Laboratory
Sai Sparsh Critical Care Centre
Siddharth Hospital
Vasudha Hospital
Yashada Maternity & Surgical Home
Baliga Nursing Home
Tushar Nursing Home
Gokuldham Medical Centre
Samant Nursing Home

Schools
A. B. Goregaonkar English High School
Adarsh Vidyalaya

Aarey Colony and high-rises in the

background

Aditya Academy English High school

Ashatai Gawankar Primary School
Bangur Nagar Vidya Bhavan
Gokuldham High School (http://www.gaet.edu.in/ghs/)
Goregaon English School
Film City High School
I. B. Patel High School
Jawahar High School
Kuldeepsingh Diwan High School
Lakshadham High School
M. N. English School
M. T. S. Khalsa High School
Maharashtra Vidyalaya
Mount Mary High School
Nandadeep Vidyalaya High School
Nivara Vidyalay
Oberoi International School
Pahadi school
Pradnya Bodhini High School
Royal Academy
Ryan International School
Sanmitra Mandal Vidya Mandir
Sanskardham Vidyalaya
Shishu Sadan High School
Shri Radhakrishna Vidyalaya
Sir. B. J. Girl's School
St.Johns Universal School (http://stjohnsuniversal.edu.in/)
St. Thomas Academy
St. Thomas High School
St. Xaviers High School
Umedbhai Patel English School
Universal English School
Urmi Surgeon High School
VIBGYOR HIGH School, http://www.vibgyorhigh.com
Vidya Mandir High School
Vidya Niketan
Vivek Vidyalaya (http://www.vivekvidyalaya.org/)
Yashodham High School (http://www.gaet.edu.in/yashodham/index.jsp)

Colleges
Gokuldham High School & Junior College
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
Kuldeep Singh Dewan Junior College
Lords Universal College

M. T. S. Junior College
Pandurang Night School & Junior College
Patkar College
Sanskardham Junior College of Science & Commerce
St. Thomas Junior College
Vidya Vikas Junior College of Science & Commerce
Vivek College
Yashodham High School & Junior College.

References
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"About Goregaon - Mumbai News" (http://mumbainews.wordpress.com/2006/09/09/goregaon/).

http://mmrda.maharashtra.gov.in/mumbai-urban-transport-project-2
"History of the Church" (http://stthomaschurch.in/site/parish/history-of-the-church/). St. Thomas Church.
http://stthomaschurch.in/site/parish/history-of-the-church/
http://www.bnhs.org/education-mainmenu/about-us.html
http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/girl-killed-boy-injured-in-leopard-attack-in-mumbai-426925
http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/mumbai-in-third-leopard-attack-in-a-month-seven-year-old-boy-killed-434211
http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/leopard-kills-50yearold-woman-in-goregaon/1026522/
http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/nineyearold-killed-in-leopard-attack/1065642/

External links
Goregaoninfo.com - Information wrapped with Entertainment (http://www.goregaoninfo.com)
Goregaonkar - Celebrating the Spirit of Goregaon (http://www.goregaonkar.com)
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