Indira Nagar, Lucknow

Indira Nagar (Hindi: इंदिरा नगर )(Urdu: اندرا نگر) is a residential posh area in Lucknow. It was developed by U.P. Housing Board (Awas Vikas) and is the largest colony in Asia. History Indira Nagar (originally named as Ram Sagar Mishra Nagar) was a well planned colony, divided into four blocks, namely, A-Block, B-Block, C-Block, and D-Block but now has several sectors, now totaling to 25. Few Urban Villages can be seen now which were not razed during the development of the colony like Ghazipur, Tikapurwa and Bastauli.

Markets Bhootnath (B-Block) is the main market in this locality. Other markets are the group of Lekhraj Market Complexes,Amrapali Market, Sahara Shopping Centre, Meena Market (all A-Block), Shivaji Market, Nagina Plaza, Hanuman Mandir Market (all C-Block) , Munshi Pulia (D-Block) etc. There are good restaurants like Aryan's, Babian's, Bikanerwala, Chandrakala (Panchwati), Tunday Kababi etc. Besides there is a Nescafe joint and Café Coffee Day. Besides eating joints, it has a large number of bank branches, guest houses, banquet halls and hospitals, chemists, construction material shops at Faizabad Main Road, schools and various government offices and utilities.

Parks Indira Nagar has a number of well developed jogging parks. Aurobindo park and Swarn Jayanti are well known parks developed by Avas Vikas. Few Parks within different neighbourhoods have emerged in recent times like Vivekanand Park in the C-Block.

All the roads in this locality are perpendicular and whole colony is very well connected by auto rickshaws. Another popular medium are manual rickshaws. The new shopping malls are opened here with shops like Spencer's , Bigbaazar. The Fastfood Outlets like Domino's. The famous restaurant is Punjabi Chula situated in middle of Bhootnath market. The famous sweet shops are Kanchan in A Block Crossing. Police station in Ghazipur. The roads in Indira Nagar are developed. This colony has many gardens & parks.

Schools Most of the schools in Indira Nagar are operating within localities. Some of them are: 1. St. Dominic near Bhootnath Market 2. CMS in A-Block 3. St Mary's in D-Block 4. RLB Memorial Schools in C-block and Sector-14 5. Central Academy in Sector-9 6. Delhi Public School in Sector-19 7. D.A.V. Public School in Sector-18 8. Eram Inter College in C-Block 9. New Way School in A-Block 10. Gurukul Academy in B-Block 11. United World School in Sector-15

External links

• Indira Nagar, Lucknow at wikimapia