Kalyan Dombivili, India

Indian City

Kalyan-Dombivli is a twin city and a municipal corporation with its headquarters located in Kalyan in Thane district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It was formed in 1982 to administer the twin townships of Kalyan and Dombivli. Kalyan has a history of over 700 years.

Government of India recently announced five cities of Maharashtra state for smart city project. Kalyan-Dombivli is the one of them. The other four cities are Aurangabad, Nashik, Nagpur & Thane. Kalyan-Dombivli is also considered as one of the fastest developing node after Navi Mumbai.

Connectivity

Mumbai, nearest to the KDMC is the headquarters of two zones of the Indian Railways: the Central Railway (CR) headquartered at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus), and the Western Railway (WR) headquartered at Churchgate.

The Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai is nearest.

City Name
Kalyan Dombivili
Country
India
Geographical sub-categorization
Maharashtra
City Size
Small city (from 500,000 to 2m inhabitants)
City Strategy
Retrofitting
Greenfield
Pan-city
City Function(s)
Manufacturing cities
Trading cities