Vijnanapura Ward

Vijnanapura ward
ವಿಜಿನಾನಪುರ
Ward number 51
Wards


Channasandra-Railway-Station

Vijnanapura ward shown in red inside KR Puram assembly
Coordinates: 12°58′N 77°34′E / 12.967°N 77.567°E / 12.967; 77.567
Lok Sabha Bangalore North
Vidhan Sabha K R Puram
BBMP Zone Mahadevapura
Area
  Total 2.1 km2 (0.8 sq mi)
Population
  Total 46,159 (2,011 census)
  Density 22,464/km2 (58,180/sq mi)
Households 11,087
Road length 55 km

Vijnanapura ward (Kannada: ವಿಜಿನಾನಪುರ) is spread over 2.1 km2 in KR Puram assembly constituency on the outskirts of East Bengaluru. With a population of 46,159.[1] It comes in Mahadevpura zone under the BBMP.

The localities of Vijnanapura ward include Kamalamma Layout, Kodanda Reddy Layout, Manjunath Layout, Banasavadi BDA Layout, Gurumurthy Reddy Layout, Nagappa Reddy Layout, Kuvempu Nagar, Subramanya Layout, Rajarajeswari Layout, Jyothi Nagar, N R Layout, Kotturu, Vijnapura, Chandrasekhar Layout, ITI Employees Housing Colony & Food Corporation of India[2]

Amenities

Vijnanapura ward has 7 Parks (Total of 11,927.75 m2), 1 Playground (Total of 3809 m2), 2 Government Schools. BMTC has over 11 bus stops with 69 bus routes here. Vijnanapura ward does not have Fire Station, Lakes or Police station under its area.[3] The nearest Police station is Ramamurthy Nagar police station.

Civic Administration

Vijnanapura Ward is placed in K R Puram Assembly constituency (Vidhana Sabha) led by MLA B.A. Basavaraj. K R Puram in turn comes under Bangalore North (Lok Sabha constituency) led by MP D. V. Sadananda Gowda who was also the ex Chief Minister of Karnataka. During the general elections 2014 D. V. Sadananda Gowda contesting through BJP won with 52.91% majority defeating C. Narayanaswamy of INC. MLA B.A. Basavaraj contesting through INC won the Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, 2013 from K R Puram by a margin of 24001 votes defeating N S Nandiesha Reddy of BJP.

The elected Corporator, S Raju of BJP won the BBMP 2015 elections with 10,449 votes with a victory margin of 235 votes defeating Syed Mastan of INC

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