Naigaon
Naigaon is a suburb in north Mumbai. It is a part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. It is 9 km away from Greater Mumbai city limits. A decade ago it was a village, but the situation has drastically changed in a few years. It is governed by the Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation (VVMC).
It is also the name of a railway station on the Western Line of the Mumbai suburban railway. Naigaon station is the next station to Bhayandar station in the south and before Vasai Road station to the north. It is located after the major creek between Bhayander and Naigaon. Naigaon east is connected to the Ahmedabad Highway by the Naigaon east road and has nearest station as 'Juchandra' which connects to Vasai Road station via Vasai-Diva route. There is a flyover under development which will connect east-west, which in turn will ease transportation. There is a proposed bridge flyover which will connect Naigaon to Bhayander. It was expected to be completed in 2016.
Population
In Naigaon population mainly consists of Marathi speaking Hindus, Christians who basically speak in English and Muslims and Gujarati-speaking Hindus and Jains. The language spoken by the Christian community is a different dialect of Marathi language which is called Konkani.
Naigaon east
In the east there is a famous temple of Chandika Devi (Goddess named Chandika). The population in 2014 is approximately 1 lakh and above. There is a Citizen Colony of many buildings and Citizen Credit Co-op Bank Ltd. There is a largest Township by Unicorn Global Arena with 78 Multi-storey towers in the making. There is a township Mittal Enclave which is a project being developed by the Mittal Builders. Rashmi Builders also have major residential complexes like Rashmi Pink city and Star city. Naigaon east has Don Bosco High School and church nearby. R D Memorial High School is one of the reputed schools in the vicinity. There are reputed banks like HDFC, Syndicate and ICICI in the vicinity. The main roads in Naigaon east are St. Marys Road, Naigaon East Road, St. Xaviers Road and Naigaon east Vasai link road. The is a huge fresh water lake with an old dam called the Netajis Lake. There are two main places in Naigaon east namely, Juchandra and Tiwri. Recent development due to no slums around, had made it an ideal place to live.
There is a beautiful church in Naigaon East known as St. Mary's Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church. This is one of the rare churches to have with her the Holy Girdle of St. Mary. Movies like Ajab Prem Ki Gazab Kahani and many other serials were shot at this church.
Naigaon East also has international level football turf, football turf is a part of Global Arena Township and managed by them.
Chinchotti Waterfall is another great place to visit, for adventures and mountaineering in Mumbai. Trekkers and people with a liking for adventure can go trekking in the Chinchotti Mountains which is about 20–30 minutes from the Naigaon East Station.
Naigaon west
Naigaon West is a coastal area which was originally a fishing village which now comprises the residential colonies like Mariam Nagar, Amol Nagar, Vijay Complex, Dias & Pereira Nagar, Roshan Park (Palli), Naigaon Koliwada (fishing village) and Umela village (sakai nagar). Mariam Nagar is the only place where salt is produced on a mass scale. Naigaon west is more used for drying of fish by kolis (fishing community) dwelling in the vicinity. Naigaon west is famous for toddy (palm wine) tapped from the borassus flabellifer tree which is a type of palm. The creek between Bhyander and Naigaon west makes it very difficult and expensive to create a road route to connect Bhyander and hence typical road route used is via Vasai west.
Water supply is not available for Naigaon west societies Vasai Municipal made a water tank in 2013, but there is no connection to it.
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