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India is a federal constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system consisting of 28 states and 8 union territories. [1] All states, as well as the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, Puducherry and the National Capital Territory of Delhi, have elected legislatures and governments, both patterned on the Westminster model.
Mumbai ( / mʊmˈbaɪ / ⓘ, Marathi: [ˈmumbəi], ISO: Muṁbaī; formerly known as Bombay[ a]) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city of India with an estimated population of 12.5 million (1.25 crore ). [ 20] Mumbai is the centre of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the ...
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre ( BARC) is India's premier nuclear research facility, headquartered in Trombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was founded by Homi Jehangir Bhabha as the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay ( AEET) in January 1954 as a multidisciplinary research program essential for India's nuclear program.
The table below lists all the talukas (tahsils/tehsils) of all the thirty-six districts in the Indian state of Maharashtra, along with district-subdivision and urban status information of headquarters villages/towns, as all talukas are intermediate level panchayats between the zilla parishad (district councils) at the district level and gram panchayats (village councils) at the lower level.
Wind power (45,886.51 MW) Biomass / cogeneration (10,355.35 MW) Small hydro (5,003.25 MW) Waste-to-energy (585.80 MW) The following lists name many of the utility power stations in India. [2] Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant with installed capacity of 2,000 MW. This station may be expanded to 6,800 MW capacity.
Bombay State was a large Indian state created in 1950 from the erstwhile Bombay Presidency, with other regions being added to it in the succeeding years. Bombay Presidency (roughly equating to the present-day Indian state of Maharashtra, excluding South Maharashtra and Vidarbha) was merged with the princely states of Baroda, Western India and ...
He is the final administrative authority for the local self-government of Mumbai. For administrative purposes, Greater Mumbai is divided into 7 zones, each consisting of 3 to 5 wards named alphabetically. All the information below is public domain information obtained from government sources and is accurate as of 1993, except the population ...
Maharashtra is the third most urbanised state in India with 42.23% of its population living in urban areas, compared with the national average of 31.16%. The urban population grew by 23.7% in the 2001–2011 period to 50.8 million and now has the highest number of people living in urban areas. [1]