Shamshabad
Shamshabad | |
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| PIN | 501218 |
| Vehicle registration | TS-07 |
Shamshabad is a census town in the Indian state of Telangana. It is located in Shamshabad
mandal. The international airport
of Hyderabad is located here.
History
The area was previously known as Sedanti village, which was later renamed Shamsabad in reference to Shams-ul-Umra, the title bestowed upon "Abul Fateh Khan", Tegh Jung, Shams-ud-Daula, Shams-ul-Mulk and Shams-ul-Umrah ("The Sun among the Nobles"), who founded the
Paigah
noble, built a country home on a hillock and race course in Shamsabad for his own. As happened with other locality names, Shamsabad too got corrupted and over the years came to be called Shamshabad.
There is a
South Central Railway, Indian Railways.[3]
Geography
Shamshabad is located at 17°15′37″N 78°23′49″E / 17.2603°N 78.3969°E.[4] It has an average elevation of 574 metres (1,886 ft).
Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
Shamshabad welcomes Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, which began operations 23 March 2008.
Metro station
Hyderabad Airport Express Metro has a metro station planned near Fort Grand underpass in Shamshabad mandal.[5][6][7]
Panchayats
There are 24 panchayats in the Shamshabad mandal.[8]
- Chinna Golkonda(village and panchayat)
- Chinna Gollapally(village and panchayat)
- Ghansimiyaguda(village and panchayat)
- Hamidullanagar(village and panchayat)
- Jukal (village and panchayat)
- Kacharam(village and panchayat)
- Kavvaguda(village and panchayat)
- Kothwalguda(village and panchayat)
- Madanpally(village and panchayat)
- Malkaram(village and panchayat)
- Muchintal(village and panchayat)
- Nanjapur(village and panchayat)
- Narkhuda(village and panchayat)
- Ootpally(village and panchayat)
- Palamakole(village and panchayat)
- Pedda Golkonda(village and panchayat)
- Pedda Shapur(village and panchayat)
- Pedda Tupra(village and panchayat)
- Ramanujpur(village and panchayat)
- Satamrai(village and panchayat)
- Shamshabad (village and panchayat)
- Shankarapur(village and panchayat)
- Sultanpally(village and panchayat)
- Tondpalli(village and panchayat)
References
- ^ "Shamshabad town population".
- ^ "Rangareddy district" (PDF). New Districts Formation Portal. Government of Telangana. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
- ^ "SCR junks plan to extend railway line to RGIA".
- ^ Falling Rain Genomics.Shamsabad
- ^ "HAML completes 21 km of pre-construction survey work".
- ^ "Pre-construction works for Hyderabad Airport Metro works in full swing".
- ^ "Airport metro progressing at a brisk pace".
- ^ Details of Telangana till Village Panchayat Tier Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
External links
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