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Keshav Puram, also known as Lawrence Road, is a leafy suburb in the North West district of Delhi, India. It was first developed by the Delhi Development Authority.it is located near Trinagar in Delhi. This area has lots of parks in this area and the density of persons in the area is low. This area has very low pollution levels.There is keshav puram welfare association which has done many works

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Map of Keshav Puram, Mayur Vihar, New Delhi, Delhi 110091

Demographics

The neighborhood is home to people from all income groups, but a majority of them belong to the business class.It cover the distance from model town to west pitam pura.

Administration and Politics

Keshav Puram is in the constituency represented by MLC Mr Rajesh Gupta of the Aam Aadami Party The area falls under the Wazirpur jurisdiction (No.17) of Delhi. Keshav Puram falls under the Chandni Chowk Constituency, presently represented in the Lok Sabha by Dr. Harsh vardhan,BJP. It is a ward of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. The constituent blocks of Keshav Puram are all represented by Resident Welfare Associations.

After the delimitation of assembly constituencies, Keshav Puram now falls under the Wazirpur assembly constituency. In the 2008 election, Congress candidate Hari Shankar Gupta defeated BJP's Mange Ram Garg. Ex-MLA Anil Bhardwaj of Congress, who happens to be a resident of Keshav Puram, represents the Tri Nagar assembly constituency, and defeated BJP's Dr. Nand Kishore Garg on two consecutive occasions.

Transport

The Keshav Puram Metro station lies on the Red Line and was opened in 2004. Feeder bus services operate from other Metro stations, such as Netaji Subhash Place

Underpass linking the Ring Road & Keshav Puram is now functional. The area is connected to the Ring Road also through the Wazirpur Depot (known as Netaji Subhash Place). Sarai Rohilla and shakurbasti are the two nearestest railway station to Keshav Puram.

Educational Institutions

  • Government Boys Senior Secondary School
  • Government Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya No.1
  • Mata Shiv Devi Public School
  • Tyagi Public School
  • Kendriya Vidyalaya, Keshav Puram
  • District Institute of Education and training
  • Campus of open learning University of Delhi
  • Hospitals

    Apart from several private clinics and medical consultancies, there are several hospitals in and around the neighborhood. These are listed below:

  • Delhi Government Dispensary
  • Deenbandhu Chottu Ram Dispensary (also offers homeopathic treatments)
  • Max Hospital (in Netaji Subhash Place)
  • Sunder Lal Jain Hospital (in Ashok Vihar)
  • Industry

    Industry in Keshav Puram includes meat warehousing, and plastics and fibre-glass production. Keshav Puram is also well known for housing the biggest name in the Indian baking industry - Britannia Industries. It was previously also the site for Kwality (The ice-cream group) and Modern Bakery. The area has many cold storage facilities.

    Sports and recreation

    The Keshav Puram Cricket Club plays in the President’s Estate Friendship Challenge League. Healthways has a swimming pool and a fitness centre. Keshav Puram has many parks, including the Mazdoor Park (also referred as Hathoda Ram Park for a statue depicting a laborer wielding a large hathoda i.e. hammer). There is also a fitness center in one of the parks near Keshav Puram Subzi Mandi. The Dhyan Chand sports complex houses facilities for many sports, such as swimming and tennis, and is located in neighboring Ashok Vihar.

    Public Services

    Keshav Puram has elederly recreation centre, namely Varishth Nagrik Manoranjan Kendra at C4 block. Keshav Puram has a local police station, which also serves the neighboring areas in northwest Delhi. There is a hospital under construction. Keshav Puram has two commercial zones, namely the Aggarwal Modern Bazaar and R G. The area also has two petrol stations.

    Culture

    There are multiple movie theaters in and around Keshav Puram. These are at Shakurpur (Samrat Cinema), Anand Parbat (Liberty), Azadpur (Alpna), Shadipur (Satyam), Karampura (Milan), Fun Cinemas (Netaji Subash Place), DT Cinemas (Shalimar Bagh) and Moti Nagar (Natraj), all within a radius of 5 km, screening mostly Hindi films. Many cultural events are held regularly at Keshav Puram, including the Ram Leela. The life of Lord Rama is enacted on a podium, and organised on a large scale, with 4,000 to 5,000 daily viewers. Many other programs are held in the locality, such as the Khatu Shyam Sandhya and several Haryanvi cultural presentations. The Hasya Kavi Sammelan, which takes places on the occasion of Agrasen Jayanti, is also a regular feature. In addition to this, cultural programs are organised annually during the festivals of Janamashtmi and Holi.

    There also many temples in this area. Some of them are Shiv Mandir, Sanatan Dharam Mandir, Gurudwara Singh Sabha, Shiv Mandir -Pardeshwar Dham, Sai Mandir and many more. All these temples organise special programs during the festivals and the whole community participates in it.

    References

    Keshav Puram Wikipedia