BHEL Township, Bhopal

BHEL township
neighbourhood
BHEL township

Location in Bhopal

BHEL township

Location in Madhya Pradesh

Coordinates: 23°14′24″N 77°27′52″E / 23.240064°N 77.464461°E / 23.240064; 77.464461Coordinates: 23°14′24″N 77°27′52″E / 23.240064°N 77.464461°E / 23.240064; 77.464461
Country  India
State Madhya Pradesh
District Bhopal
Metro Bhopal
Languages
  Official Hindi
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 462022
Lok Sabha constituency Bhopal
Vidhan Sabha constituency Piplani
Website www.bhelbhopal.com

BHEL TOWN, Bhopal is a suburb of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. This has developed like other BHEL townships after Indian public sector engineering company BHEL started its operations here. It is spread over an area of around 20 km2 and provides facilities like, parks, community halls, library, shopping centers, banks, post offices etc. Besides, free health services is extended to all the employees through 350 bedded (inclusive of 50 floating beds) Kasturba Hospital and chain of dispensaries.[1]

Transport

Nearest train station to BHEL township at a distance of 5 km is Habibganj, though the central Bhopal railway station is just 2 km ahead.

Educational institutions

BHEL Township has many good schools and colleges such as Jawaharlal Nehru School, Raman School, Vikram School, Radhakrishnan School, Carmel Convent School, many of them being run by the plant funded BHEL Shiksha Mandal.

References

  1. "BHEL Bhopal Profile". bhelbhopal.com. Retrieved 12 September 2012.

External links

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