CBD Belapur

CBD Belapur सी.बी.डी. बेलापूर
—  Business District  —
CBD Belapur
Coordinates: 19°1′1″N 73°2′22″E
Country	India
State	Maharashtra
District	Mumbai
Government
• Body	CIDCO
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN	400614
Telephone code	022
Civic agency	CIDCO

CBD Belapur flyover, CGO, RBI and CIDCO offices on right side

CBD Belapur is an acronym of Central Business District, Belapur. It was designed and developed in order to promote businesses. The Reserve Bank of India maintains a branch office at CBD Belapur. This area is one of the fastest developing region in Navi Mumbai in terms of new residential and commercial construction projects. CBD Belapur is well connected to all other parts of Mumbai through railways, BEST & NMMT buses. It had sea link for traveling to Elephanta caves from Sector-11.

CBD Belapur is a chief business district of Mumbai after Vashi, Bandra-Kurla Complex, Nariman Point and Worli. CBD Belapur has been growing since the 1990s, and is now home to colleges as well as a number of technology businesses. And houses a well known designer bridal place called Anahita Couture at Sec. 8

History

A view of Belapur Creek

The area near Belapur was under Portugal rule around 1560, before it was captured by the Siddis of Janjira. In those days, the town was called Belawal by the locals, and Sambayo or Shabaz by the Portuguese. In 1682, the Portuguese recaptured Shabaz, only to lose it to the Marathas in 1733. In 1817, the British East India Company captured the area from the Marathas.

Economy

Belapur

CBD Belapur houses several economic and government administrative and private companies' offices (mostly govt. offices like banks). Konkan Bhavan building houses important state government office like Director of Town Planning, Public Works Department etc. The CGO Complex (Central Government Office) has offices of Chief Commissioner of Central Exice, Special Crime Branch, MTNL and Court. Other government offices include Cotton Corporation of India Ltd and headquarters of Konkan Railway.

The Reserve Bank of India, State Bank of India (SBI) has its main servers here, Punjab National Bank, Industrial Development Bank of India Limited (IDBI) and other nationalised banks have their presence here. State Bank of India (SBI) and Punjab National Bank (PNB) have their main server at their respective branches.

CBD Belapur is home to some of the country's most prominent call centres like ChoiceConnex, Wipro BPO and few others like Kaizen, SilkRoot etc. ChoiceConnex has notable mention as it specialises in out-bound sales for US, Australia and UAE and has more recently started domestic operations as well. It has well developed markets for local population in sectors 3, 4 & 6. It has M.G.M. Hospital which takes care of local population's medical needs. It has a number of restaurants & recreational grounds such as Sunil Gavaskar Maidan. International Technology Centre at the CBD Belapur railway station complex was built by CIDCO as an Infotech hub.

Administrative Offices

CBD Belapur is also important as regards to administrative purpose as many prominent central, state and local government offices are situated here:

Kokan Bhavan

• Kokan Bhavan (State)
• CGO (Central Government Offices Complex)
• Raigad Bhavan (CIDCO)
• NMMC (Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation)

Transportation

CBD Belapur is easily accessible from all parts of Navi Mumbai and Mumbai by road and rail transport facilities. Belapur railway station lies on the harbour line and on the Sion-Panvel highway. Palm Beach Road connects CBD Belapur directly with Vashi. Railway service is up to Panvel.

Belapur Railway Station

Belapur Railway Station - Another view

BEST buses are available from CBD Belapur to Vashi, Chembur, Sion, Wadala, Bandra & Ghatkopar. NMMT buses are available from CBD Belapur to Vashi, Thane, Dombivli, Badlapur, Uran, Taloja, Panvel & Khopoli. BEST AC Kinglong and NMMT AC Volvo buses are available from CBD Belapur to Sion, Dadar, Bandra & Borivali. Auto rickshaws is the primary mode of transport within the node owing the small area occupied by the node. The minimum auto fare is Rs. 15.

There exists a provision for a helipad and helicopter service making Belapur station complex accessible by air too, but is defunct. A hovercraft was introduced in mid 1990s between CBD Belapur and Gateway of India but was later discontinued because of poor response, the main reason being the high cost.

NMMT Routes in Navi Mumbai

NMMT	Route No.	Route
NMMT	19	Kopar Khairane Bus Stn to CBD Belapur Bus Stn
NMMT	21	Kopar Khairane Bus Stn to CBD (Artist Colony)
NMMT	22	Vashi Sec 06 Bus Stn to CBD Belapur Bus Stn
NMMT	24	New Panvel Bus Stn to Thane Rly Stn (Cidco)
NMMT	26	Kharghar (Jalvayu Vihar) to Thane Rly Stn (Cidco)
NMMT	29	Kharghar (Jalvayu Vihar) to Thane Rly Stn (Cidco)
NMMT	30	Kalamboli (Roadpali) to Uran
NMMT	44	Kharghar (Vastu Vihar) to Dombivli
NMMT	47	CBD Belapur Rly Stn to Badlapur
NMMT	50	Kopar Khairane Bus Stn to Panvel Rly Stn
NMMT	51	Kopar Khairane Bus Stn to Kalamboli Bus Stn
NMMT	52	CBD Belapur Rly Stn to Taloja
NMMT	55	Ghansoli Gharonda to Taloja
NMMT	58	Vashi Bus Stn to Khopoli
NMMT	AC 105	CBD Belapur Bus Stn to Bandra Rly Stn (W)
NMMT	AC 111	Kharghar (Jalvayu Vihar) to Dadar T.T. (Khodadad Circle)
NMMT	AC 123	Kharghar (Jalvayu Vihar) to Borivali Rly Stn (E)

BEST Routes in Navi Mumbai

BEST	Route No.	Route
BEST	503	Rani Laxmibai Chowk (Sion) to Kalamboli Bus Stn
BEST	504	Wadala Depot to Jalvayu Vihar (Kharghar)
BEST	505	Bandra Depot to CBD Belapur Bus Stn
BEST	C-52 EXP	Wadala Depot to Kalamboli Bus Stn
BEST	C-53 EXP	Ghatkopar Depot to Kalamboli Bus Stn
BEST	AS 503	Wadala Depot to Kalamboli Bus Stn

Belapur Creek

This creek in the past has been a major site for sand mining, which after a long public and environmentalists' outcry stopped. But all is not well with this creek. CIDCO has allegedly allotted place for loading and unloading of sand for limited use but it is going on in uncontrolled way even being in the knowledge of all public departments whose officials are visiting the site and trying to find ways to stay away to pretend inaction. This is a major safety hazard and causing degradation of environment for residents staying in the vicinity. Resident are raising their voice now and then but no body seems concerned to address the problem for improving the surroundings.

This creek has a beautiful lining of mangroves on both banks which is now under threat from the sand barons and land mafia who use patches (created by destroying mangroves and landfilling) along the creek to bring sand from other dredging sites (as far as Mahad) and unload and re-distribute to the Mumbai city. Also, now lot of activities such as vessels repair, ship breakdown for scrap etc. are carried out on the land which is carved out of mangroves. Any activities within 50 meters of a mangrove is illegal, but the authorities remain silent, nature dies.

There are new patches being created by heavy machinery even today. The patches are growing in size by the day.^{[citation needed]}

Belapur Fort

After they wrested control of the area from the Portuguese in 1733, the Marathas, led by Chimanji Appa, captured the fort. In 1817, when it was captured by captain Charles Gray of the British East India Company, the fort was partially destroyed under the British policy of razing any Maratha stronghold in the area. CIDCO plans to restore the structure after a protest from residents of Belapur.

Law and order

The office of police commissioner Of Navi Mumbai is at CBD Belapur Sector 10. A police station is also at sector 1.

Educational institutions

• Indian Institute of Management Indore's PGP at Mumbai and Institute of Company Secretaries of India CCGRT, Sector 15
• Zonal Training Centre, Reserve Bank of India, Sector-7
• Aegis School of Business
• Aegis School of Telecommunication
• Vidya Prasarak High School
• Bharati Vidyapeeth High School, Sector-3
• Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering, affiliated to University of Mumbai
• Bharti vidyapeeth`s college of pharmacy`affiliated to University of Mumbai
• Bharti Vidyapeeth Institute of Management Studies & Research (MBA), affiliated to University of Mumbai
• Institute of Business Studies & Research
• NCST
• Dnyan Pushpa Vidya Niketan- High School, Sector- 4
• Padmashree Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Management Studies
• Padmashree Dr. D. Y. Patil University, Department of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics
• People's Education Society Central School
• People's Education Society College sector-8
• Rai Foundation Colleges
• Mumbai School of Business (MSB) - a distance education center for MBA from Bharathidasan university -Trichy.

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Other business districts of Mumbai

• Fort (Mumbai precinct)
• Nariman Point
• Colaba
• Vashi
• Worli
• Bandra Kurla Complex