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Jawahar Nagar is considered one of the many best residential places in Srinagar. The airport is located at a distance of 9.3 km (5.8 mi). The airport is located at a distance of 9.3 km (5.8 mi). Jawahar Nagar area was heavily damaged by the 2014 Kashmir floods , it was one of the worst affected areas due to flood.
Jawahar Tunnel, also called Banihal Tunnel is a road tunnel at elevation of 2,194 m (7,198 ft) in union territory of Jammu and Kashmir in India below the Banihal Pass in the Pir Panjal mountain range in lower Himalayas. It was named after Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India. It was constructed between 1954 and 1956.
It is one of 6 cities in Srinagar (south) block along with mohallas like Nowgam and Bagh e Mehtab. Nearby cities include Lasjan Padshai Bagh, 06.10 kilometres (3.79 mi) and Jawahar nagar 05.11 kilometres (3.18 mi) from Lal Chowk Srinagar. It is an industrial area as there are many hot mix plants, stone crusher and brick kiln.
After the closure of the Murree-Muzaffarabad-Srinagar road on the partition of India in 1947, Banihal pass was the only passage from Jammu to Srinagar after independence until 1956 when Jawahar Tunnel was bored through the Pir Panjal range. The pass is accessible only in summer and in winters also if there is no heavy snowfall.
Sonwar Bagh was one of many areas of Srinagar, including Shivpora, Jawahar Nagar, Rajbagh, Gogji Bagh, Pandrathan, and Batwara, that was worst hit by the 2014 Kashmir floods. [citation needed] Sonwar Bagh was completely submerged for 21 days. Many houses were destroyed and damaged, but only a few people were killed.
Jawaharnagar or Jawahar Nagar may refer to these places in India named after its first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru: Jawahar Nagar, a neighbourhood of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; Jawaharnagar (Gujarat Refinery), a town and oil refinery in Gujarat, India; Jawahar Nagar, Jaisalmer, a village in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India
Indira Nagar is a residential area in the city of Srinagar in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. [3] It used to be a lake [4] before but now only few hundred meters of the lake is left. This area comes under the control of Badami Bagh Cantonment along with other areas like Batwara, Shivpora and Sonwar Bagh.
Hazratbal is the notified area situated in the Srinagar district of Jammu and Kashmir.It is about 10 km (6.2 mi) from the Srinagar city center.The area became famous after the construction of Hazratbal Shrine, where hundreds of thousands of people visit every year because many relics related to the Islamic prophet Muhammad are believed to be there.