Jafferkhanpet

Jafferkhanpet
neighbourhood
Jafferkhanpet
Coordinates: 13°01′25″N 80°13′25″E / 13.0235°N 80.2237°E / 13.0235; 80.2237Coordinates: 13°01′25″N 80°13′25″E / 13.0235°N 80.2237°E / 13.0235; 80.2237
Country India
State Tamil Nadu
District Chennai District
Metro Chennai
Zone Kodambakkam
Ward 138
Taluk Mambalam
Government
  Body Chennai Corporation
Languages
  Official Tamil
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 600083
Vehicle registration TN-09
Lok Sabha constituency South chennai
Vidhan Sabha constituency Saidapet
Planning agency CMDA
Civic agency Chennai Corporation
Website www.chennai.tn.nic.in

Jafferkhanpet is a locality of Chennai, India. Guindy, K.K. Nagar, Ashok Nagar, MGR Nagar, Saidapet are its neighbourhood suburbs. You can reach Jafferkhanpet by travelling in the newly constructed Guindy flyover. This allows easier access to Vadapalani, Koyambedu bus stand in Chennai. Jafferkhanpet is twin locality of Ashok nagar

Location in Context

Transportation

Railway station,Airport,Bus terminus

The Suburban Railway station in Guindy is the closest station to Jafferkhanpet. Chennai International Airport is located at a distance of 8 km. CMBT Bus terminus is located at a distance of 7 km and it is accessible by many MTC buses (Approx. journey time 30 to 45 mins). The nearest bus depot is K.K.Nagar..

Buses

Most of the buses going to South Tamil Nadu,Pondicherry and Kerala go via Jafferkhanpet and Kasi Theatre stopping is one of the landmark. All the buses including SETC will stop at Kasi Theatre. Mofussil bus stop located very nearer to Kasi junction. There are frequent bus services to Velachery, Guindy, Chennai Airport, Tambaram, Mamallapuram, Thiruvanmiyur, Redhills, Avadi, Besant Nagar, Chennai Central and Egmore & Koyambedu from this place. Particularly 5E covers this area from Kasi theatre to Raghavan Colony. Small buses introduced in Jafferkhanpet from S35 Ashok Nagar to CIPET and S26 Ashoknagar to Valasaravakkam both service covers north and south bound of Jaffarkhanpet

Metro(Proposed)

Plans have been finalised by the local government to build a Metro. The tentative year of completion is 2013. K.K. Nagar metro station comes very nearer to kasi (abt 1 minute walk from kasi theater).

Places

Kasi Junction

Kasi theatre signal is one of the busiest junctions (especially in peak hours) in this route. From this junction it connects Saidapet, K.K.Nagar, Guindy, CMBT, AIRPORT etc.

Localities Of Jafferkhanpet

R. Venkatraman nagar, Anjugam nagar, Raghavan colony, Nethaji Nagar, Pillaiyar koil st, Mangai street, Valluvar street, Gnanaoli street, Gnanamani street, Kasi estate, Thiru nagar, Vasudevan nagar, Kabilar street, Sapthagiri colony, Sekar nagar, Pari nagar, Deivanambi street, Gangaiamman koil street, S.V.Chidambaram salai, Kambar Street.Amman festival on 7 th sunday ,

Educational Institutions

Schools and Colleges

Places of Worship

Temples

There a lot of other small Temples

Bridges

The Kasi theatre Bridge over the Adyar River is one the famous bridges in this locality

Politics

G. Senthamizhan, (ADMK) has been selected as MLA of this constituency from April 2011.

References

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