Chembur

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Chembur is a suburb of Mumbai, India, as well as a railway station on the Harbour Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway. It is a major transportation hub.

1 History
2 Geography
3 Demographics
4 Landmarks
5 Railway station
6 External links
7 See also

[edit] History

Originally a picnic-spot on the north-eastern outskirts of Mumbai, Chembur is now considered a central suburb. The first building in Chembur is the 'Raote House' in Chembur's Gaothan near 10th road, developed in 1928. The name Chembur is a derivative of Chimbori (the Marathi word for crabs). Chembur was a causeway and a popular crabbing area earlier.

[edit] Geography

Major arteries originate at Chembur and lead to Navi Mumbai (new Bombay), Ghatkopar, Sion, Kurla and Mulund-Thane. The Central Railway’s Harbour Line, services Chembur.

Gas Chamber of Mumbai: Because of the large number of refineries , fertilizer plants and a TATA Electric thermal power plant in the area ; Chembur's air quality was poor in the early 80's and right after the Bhopal gas tragedy , Chembur was nicknamed the gas chamber of Mumbai. Pollution levels in Chembur are now far lower and much better than other parts of the city.

[edit] Demographics

Chembur is 8.4 km long North-South and approximately 3 km broad East-West. (3.5 km at the broadest point). It lies between 19.072257°N & 18.996721° latitudes and 72.881096° and 72.910123° longitudes.

Occupying an area of 23.5 sq. km., the bounds of Chembur extend from Tilak Nagar in the north (short of the Somaiyya Vidya Vihar campus) to the seafront in the south, past the Tata Thermal Power project. And from the Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers plant in the West (short of the IMAX Adlabs entertainment multiplex) to the Shah & Anchor Engineering College(short of the Deonar bus depot). At the centroid of this roughly rectangular 23.5 sq. km. area is a small industrial building called Sita Estate, roughly 500 m south of the Ashish movie theatre.

The northern half of Chembur is residential and the southern half is industrial.

Old bungalows and villas in the northern half are making way for high-rise apartments. Like most suburbs of Mumbai today, Chembur has a cosmopolitan population.

Many of the founders of India's film industry, celebrities like Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor, Shobhana Samarth and her daughters Nutan and Tanuja, Geeta Bali, Ashok Kumar, Om Prakash, Kishore Sahu, Surinder Kapoor resided in Chembur. Some of the present day Bollywood celebrities like Anil Kapoor and his brothers Boney (Achal Kapoor) and Sanjay Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty, Shankar Mahadevan, Ayesha Takia, Shreya Ghoshal, Malaika Arora and her sister Amrita Arora, Vidya Balan, Shveta Salve, Hari Murali and Birju Maharaj grew up in Chembur, where some of them still reside.

(Burmah) Shell Colony, Sahakar Nagar, Subhash Nagar and Tilak Nagar are old housing board tenement colonies in Chembur. Anushakti Nagar at Deonar -- the staff quarters of Bhabha Atomic Research Center, lies just outside the eastern boundary of Chembur.

[edit] Landmarks

Bhabha Atomic Research Center, India's first nuclear research facility
R K Studios
Dukes factory

[edit] Railway station

Chembur is an important railway station on The Mumbai Subarban Railway's Harbour line. It is the 13th Station from Mumbai CST and 18 kilometers by train.

Chembur
Next station south: Tilak Nagar	Mumbai suburban railway : Harbour Railway (Harbour Line)			Next station north: Govandi
	Stop No:13	KM from starting:18	Platforms:2