Trans-Gomti area is an important sub-city in the Lucknow metropolitan area with its population next only to the main city. It is relatively more developed than the mainland due to the contemporary planning. It is divided roughly into the following areas: Mahanagar, Nirala Nagar, Aliganj, Janakipuram, Indira Nagar, and the largest of all, Gomti Nagar.
With the population of slightly more than one million it is the most literate area in the entire Uttar Pradesh state. It mostly has middle class professionals and is more cosmopolitan than the main city.
It constitutes the central business district of Eastern Uttar Pradesh with many BPOs, R&D centres, IT, and ITES centres. It also has Indira Gandhi Pratishthan which is the largest science and technology centre in Uttar Pradesh. Most of the economic activity is confined to Indira Nagar-Gomti Nagar and Sitapur Road while others are primarily residential establishments.
The institutional area in Vibhuti Khand, a locality in Gomti Nagar, is fast developing as the second Central Business District of Lucknow.
It has several world class institutions like: