Goregaon

For Goregaon, the town in Raigad district, see Goregaon (Raigad).

For the places in Haryana, see Gurgaon and Gurgaon district.

For Girgaon, another area in Mumbai, see Girgaon.

Suburb of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Suburb in Mumbai Suburban, Maharashtra, India

Goregaon

Suburb

The Oberoi Mall and Commerz tower (Westin Hotel), Goregaon, Mumbai.

Goregaon

Coordinates: 19°09′18″N 72°51′00″E﻿ / ﻿19.155°N 72.85°E﻿ / 19.155; 72.85
Country|  India
State| Maharashtra
District| Mumbai Suburban
City| Mumbai
Government

• Type| Municipal Corporation
• Body| Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM)
Languages

• Official| Marathi
Time zone| UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN|

400062, 400104 (West), 400063 (East), 400097 (Gokuldham)

Area code| 022
Vehicle registration| MH-47
Lok Sabha Constituency| Mumbai North West (Lok Sabha constituency)
Vidhan Sabha Constituency| Goregaon (covers western part of the suburb)
Dindoshi (covers eastern part of the suburb)

Goregaon ([ɡoːɾeɡaːʋ]) is a suburb of Mumbai city, in the Mumbai Suburban district of India. It has a railway station on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Western Line. An extension of the Harbour Line was completed in 2018 due to which it has regular trains to CSMT. This is in addition to existing trains to Churchgate on the Western Line. Owing to rapid urbanization (mainly due to construction of metro lines) and the growing population of metropolitan Mumbai, Goregaon, which was once a hilly forest region is now a crowded suburb of Mumbai.

Mumbai local trains originate and terminate at Goregaon. Platforms 1 and 2 operate slow trains towards Churchgate and CSMT whereas Platform 7 operates fast trains towards Churchgate.

Gokuldham in Goregaon (East)

## Transport

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Goregaon Railway Station is the transport hub of Goregaon. The station currently has seven platforms, two of which are new harbor-line platforms, and was expanded as a part of the Harbour Line extension (under MUTP 2) from Andheri.[1] The expansion, involving two additional platforms and an elevated deck with passenger amenities (on the western side of the existing station) was completed in 2018.

A recently constructed skywalk connects one of the foot-over-bridges to S. V. Road near Citi Centre, a shopping complex near the M. G. Road junction. BEST has bus stations on both the Western and the Eastern sides of the railway station. Goregaon Bus Depot, however, is located away from the railway station, on Link Road. The link road has seen an increase in the traffic of late after the commencement of the Mumbai Metro construction work.

There is a new flyover at Ram Mandir road, connecting Goregaon West and Goregaon East.[2] In addition, Ram Mandir railway station is operational since December 2016.[3] The next important transport project for Goregaon will be the GMLR (Goregaon Mulund Link Road) which will be a 5km underground road consisting of two tunnels each having three lanes. This road will link Goregaon to Bhandup.[4]

## Nature and conservation

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Goregaon shares a boundary with the 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.

Aarey Colony and high-rises in the background

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.

## Education

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### Colleges

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* Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
* Patkar-Varde College

### Schools

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* Oberoi International School
* Vibgyor High School
* Gokuldham High School and Junior College[10]
* A. B. Goregaonkar High School
* St. Thomas Academy
* Pragnya Bodhini High School
* Vivek Vidyalaya & Junior College

## References

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1. ^ "Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority - Mumbai Urban Transport Project - ||".
2. ^ "Mumbai: Flyover connecting Goregaon East and West to open today". mid-day. 30 April 2016.
3. ^ "Ram Mandir station to finally open today - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
4. ^ "Goregaon-Mulund Link Road plan first hurdle cleared - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
5. ^ "About CEC". Archived from the original on 14 May 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
6. ^ Singh, Sunil (2 October 2013). "Girl killed, boy injured in leopard attack in Mumbai". NDTV. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
7. ^ "Mumbai: In third leopard attack in a month, seven-year-old boy killed". NDTV.com.
8. ^ "Leopard kills 50-year-old woman in Goregaon - Indian Express". archive.indianexpress.com.
9. ^ "Nine-year-old killed in leopard attack - Indian Express". archive.indianexpress.com.
10. ^ "GHS | Gokuldham High School & Junior College". ghs.edu.in. Retrieved 9 May 2024.

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