Musheerabad

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Musheerabad
neighbourhood
Musheerabad
Location in Andhra Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 17°25′32″N 78°30′14″E / 17.425544°N 78.503795°E / 17.425544; 78.503795Coordinates: 17°25′32″N 78°30′14″E / 17.425544°N 78.503795°E / 17.425544; 78.503795
Country  India
State Andhra Pradesh
District Hyderabad
Metro Hyderabad
Government
 • Body Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation
Languages
 • Official Telugu
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 500020
Lok Sabha constituency Secunderabad
Vidhan Sabha constituency Musheerabad
Planning agency Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation

Musheerabad (Telugu: ముషీరాబాద్, Urdu: مشیرآباد‎) is a commercial center in Hyderabad, India. Musheerabad will come under central zone and ninth circle of hyderabad. Nawab Bahadur Yar Jung one of the founding members of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen is buried in Musheerabad. The area housed the Musheerabad Jail until 2003 after which it was demolished and a new hospital and the new premises of Gandhi Medical College were constructed in the same area.[1][2]

Musheerabad is one of the electoral constituencies in the Andhra Pradesh State Assembly.[3] The area is commercial in nature with the presence mainly of traders of silk sarees and tanneries.[4][5]

Musheerabad is well-connected to other parts of the city through public transit. Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation runs several buses. Intercity and intracity trains are available from Secunderabad Railway Station, Vidyanagar Railway Station and Jamia Osmania Railway Station – each of which is equidistant from this area.

Musheerabad is a buzz place on Sundays, with roadside old book vendors.[6]

Neighbourhoods

Padmarao Nagar, Chikkadpally, Raam Nagar, kavaadiguda and Domalguda, and Gandhinagar

Eminent Personalities

Wajid Asrafy

References

  1. ↑ "Gandhi Hospital begins a new era". The Hindu. June 14, 2004. Retrieved 22 September 2010. 
  2. ↑ V, Geetanath (November 9, 2003). "No official sanction for new Gandhi Hospital complex?". The Hindu. Retrieved 22 September 2010. 
  3. ↑ "No delimitation to confusion". The Times of India. 20 March 2009. Retrieved 26 September 2010. 
  4. ↑ V. S., Krishna (15 March 2004). "Usher in the summer with cool khadis". The Hindu. Retrieved 26 September 2010. 
  5. ↑ V, Geetanath (26 May 2005). "Animal skin trade rampant despite ban". The Hindu. Retrieved 26 September 2010. 
  6. ↑ The Hindu article on old book vending in Hyderabad.
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