Janakpuri


Janak Puri is an affluent neighborhood in the South West district of Delhi, India. It is located near the Delhi Cantonment area and is accessible by road and Delhi Metro via multiple lines as well as train because of its nearest railway station at Delhi Cantonment.

Locality

Janak Puri was planned as the largest residential colony Asia in late 1960s and has a large number of parks in each pocket of the locality and is a well structured city. The Janak Puri District Park, in the middle of the Colony, is a managed green land-mass.
It was built on the acquired lands of the Possangipur village.
The present geographical structure of the Janak Puri constituency came into existence in 2008 as a part of the implementation of the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted in 2002.
The main commercial centre is the Janak Puri District Centre, which houses regional offices of companies and firms as well as shops selling food, apparel, handicrafts and jewellery. A "crafts bazaar" within the complex sells handicrafts and home decor items.
Janak Puri is a part of the South West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency along with nine other Vidhan Sabha segments. Shri Ashish Sood is the Member of the Legislative Assembly in the 8th Delhi Assembly from Janak Puri Assembly constituency.
There are various religious places for worship in Janak Puri at A, B, C and D Block. Sanatan Dharam Mandir and Gurudwara are at Ram Mandir Marg as well as Sanatan Dharam Mandir, Arya Samaj Mandir, Gurudwara, Church are on the Dharam Marg.
Janak Puri is also popular for its weekly Saturday market which is one of the largest market organised on C4-B, C4-C, C4-D, C4-E, C4-F and C4-G as well as C3 Block on Ram Mandir Marg. It is a best place to visit and shopping.
In Janak Puri, C3 Block has Cinepolis Cinema Hall, earlier known as Janak Cinema and in the B Block District Center, it has Innox Janak Palace Cinema Hall. District Center has a shopping mall and near to it there is a Unity One Shopping Mall. There are various commercial offices in the District Center and Unity One Mall. These are best place to visit and shopping.
Hotels and restaurants are spread across Janak Puri. Hyatt Centric is near to Janak Puri West Metro Station.

Establishments

Janak Puri has a Fire Station adjacent to the Janak Puri Super Speciality Hospital on the Lal Sai Mandir Marg.
Besides small and medium-sized hospitals and medical centres, , An Autonomous Post-Graduate Institute, a 300 bedded medical facility, has been operational since September 2008.
is also adjacent and near to Janak Puri.
Dispensaries in various blocks are available like in C4 Block Janak Puri.
Janak Puri has Authority Office near to District Center where Sub-Registrar Office facilitate various Government Official works related to the district.
Janak Puri has Post Offices for each block to facilitate its citizens. For passport seva also, there is facility available in the designated post office. Moreover, for Aadhaar Card also, services are available.
Various Public and Private Sector banks are in Janak Puri, which not only facilitate its residents but also help people in commercial sector.
BSES Rajdhani Delhi manage electricity supply and Delhi Jal Board is ensuring the water supply.
Libraries have been setup by Delhi Government in Janak Puri.
There are various Mother Diary and Amul Booths in Janak Puri. Almost every block has such booths for milk, curd, dairy products and vegetables as well as fruits.

Connectivity

Janak Puri is connected by the Outer Ring Road to parts of Northwest and North Delhi like Rohini, Pitampura, and Wazirabad through elevated corridors. Janak Puri's famous Pankha road connects Janak Puri to Uttam Nagar, Dwarka, Delhi Cantonment, Najafgarh, Palam. It has Vivekanand setu, which was named by our Leader Smt. Sushma Swaraj Ji to tribute Swami Vivekanand Ji. There is a way to connect Dwarka Express Way to reach Gurugram, Jaipur, Mumbai Express, Chandigarh.
The Hari Nagar Delhi Transport Corporation Bus Depot is near to the Janak Puri.
The Delhi Metro has three metro stations in Janak Puri, one station each on the blue line and magenta line and one on both. In the third phase, Janak Puri got a new underground station, Dabri Mor metro station near the DDA Park in C2 Area, on the Magenta Line which has been opened for public on 29 May 2018. This corridor will have the first driverless train in Delhi Metro Network. Janak Puri West Metro Station has been expanded to accommodate the new Magenta Line. Janak Puri West Metro Station has India's highest escalator. It is 15.6 metres high and 35.3 metres long.

Education

The neighbourhood's schools include Govt. Schools / Sarvodaya Vidyalaya, Kendriya Vidyalaya Janakpuri, Municipal Corporation of Delhi schools, Mira Model School, New Era Public School, D.T.E.A. Sr. Sec. School, St. Marks Sr. Sec. Public School, St. Francis de Sales School, SS Mota Singh School, Lawrence Public School, and Sumermal Jain Public School.
Key institutions in and around Janakpuri include:
The flora and fauna in India are diverse with a variety of plants and animal varieties. Janak Puri has lot of green zones maintaining flora and fauna. These green zones predominantly have Eucalyptus Trees throughout which makes the environment pleasant and pollution free. Rest the residents in Janak Puri are environment friendly doing planting in their residents and parks. Dusshera Ground, B-Block District Park and C4 Block District Park are popular in the area for walk, workout and picnic. In B-Block District Park there is a musical fountain arrangement and there is a facility for the food shops.

Tihar Jail

The Tihar Central Jail was set up in 1958 on the land near Tihar Village which later came under Janak Puri. In the beginning, only one Central Jail was commissioned with the lodging capacity of 1273 prisoners. The prison population gradually grew and today as many as 11,000 inmates are lodged here. Tihar CJ was later developed into a prison complex which became the largest prison complex in Asia. The prison complex has nine central jails apart from a District Jail at Rohini and Mandoli, which was commissioned in 2004 and 2010.