Anushakti Nagar

About

In the early 1960s the government decided to expand the nuclear research (see BARC) facility in (what was then) a distant suburb of Mumbai. The township is about 3 km north of the research centre.

Anushakti Nagar is a well planned self-contained community with a population of about 45,000. It has residential flats, local grocery shops, sports and recreation facilities, schools, medical clinics, a large hospital, bank, post office and transport links to many parts of Mumbai. Both the atomic research centre and the town maintenance is funded by the central (federal) government. The complex is sprawling and lies stretched out alongside four suburbs - Govandi, Mankhurd, New Mandala and Trombay. The other facilities include, two community Centres for social occasions and gatherings, various departmental and co-operative stores, a restaurant, 2 creches. The electricity to the colony is provided by TATA Power, and the cable (and more recently, cablenet) by ANUSAT club.

Anushaktinagar has 17 high-rises and numerous buildings, that have grades, depending on flat-size, and are allotted on the basis of seniority to DAE employees. The nomenclature of these buildings is unique and one of the best aspects of the colony, with names taken from - Indian Heritage names (Nalanda, Hastinapur, Pataliputra, Indraprastha, Takshashila, Kapilvastu)

Rivers (Saraswati, Godavari, Narmada, Saryu, Alaknanda, Bhagirathi, Ghaghra, Gomti etc.)

Himalayan peaks (Kamet, Annapurna, Kanchenjunga, Dhawalgiri {Dhawalgiri}, Nandadevi {Nanda Devi}, Gaurishankar{Gauri Sankar}, Everest etc.)

Hill-stations (Venkatgiri, Almora, Gulmarg, Mount Abu etc.), Hill-ranges (Sahyadri, Vindhya, Satpura, Aravalli, Nilgiri etc.)

Historical Places (Sanchi, Ajanta, Ellora, Shantiniketan, Sriniketan, Golconda etc.)

famous Hindu Pilgrim Places (Kailash, Badrinath, Kedarnath, Dwarka, Sarnath etc.)

Great Saints (Meerabaie, Namdev, Jaidev, Ramdas, Tuslidas, Kabir, Tukaram, Chaitanya etc.),

Classical Ragas (the Raagmala buildings - Mohana, Deepak, Malhar, Darbari, Bhairavi etc.).

The Mandala "suburb" of this township has buildings named after seasons (Hemant, Sharad, Shishir

some buildings of New Mandala are flowers names like Pankaj,Kamal,Champa,Parijat,Gulmohar,Kumud etc.)

Recent additions to the high-rises are two buildings: Udayagiri and Malayagiri, both of which are state of the art, spacious and well designed buildings.

Barring the road which connects the main gate with the BARC north gate, no other roads are named. The Central Avenue road which divides the colony roughly into two halves center connects the colony entrance with the BARC North Gate. It is a 2+2 lane divided by a 70-foot-wide (21 m) green stretch which runs all along. A number of people use the footpaths along the roadside for a pleasant stroll.

Anushakti nagar can be said to be divided into three parts: