Vimanapura

Vimanapura
neighbourhood
Vimanapura
Coordinates: 12°57′51″N 77°40′6″E / 12.96417°N 77.66833°E / 12.96417; 77.66833Coordinates: 12°57′51″N 77°40′6″E / 12.96417°N 77.66833°E / 12.96417; 77.66833
Country	India
State	Karnataka
Metro	Bangalore
Languages
• Official	Kannada
• Others	Telugu, Tamil
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN	560017
Telephone code	91-80
ISO 3166 code	IN-KA
Vehicle registration	KA 03
Lok Sabha constituency	Bangalore North
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Krishnarajapura
Website	karnataka.gov.in

Vimanapura is an eastern suburb of Bangalore in Karnataka in India. It is so called because it is near Bangalore HAL airport. Vimanapura houses many of the HAL offices and the HAL hospital. The busy Old Airport Road goes through it.

It is about 7 miles east of the old center of Bangalore.

Its name is Sanskrit for "Airplane Town"; see Vimana.

Many businesses are based there.

The Indian Air Force has a base there.

It is well connected by many BMTC buses. From Kempegowda bus station (Majestic bus stand), one can take route number 333 buses for reaching Vimanapura. One of the important roads here is Suranjan Das road. This road connects the Airport road to Old Madras road. On one side of this road are the HAL quarters (housing colony) and on the other side are the HAL offices. This road also houses the HAL hospital, HAL market, BEML and also in the middle has Sadbhavana Park, with a beautiful walking track.

Other localities which are part of the Vimanapura area are Annasandrapalya, Basava Nagar, Islampura, Jagadish Nagar, Jyothi Nagar, Lal Bahadur Shastri Nagar (L. B. Shastri Nagar), Nellurupura, Ramesh Nagar, Reddypalya and Vibhutipura. L. B. Shastri Nagar has many apartments and has a park (Uthkarsh park). The park is privately maintained by Uthkarsh community who are group of individuals dedicated to making a positive difference to the surrounding civic conditions.

Examples of organizations with premises in Vimanapura

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Areas of Bangalore

Jeevanbheemanagar

Jagadish Nagar / Lal Bahadur Shastri Nagar

Basavanagar / Annasandrapalya / Vibhutipura

Murugeshpalya

Marathahalli

Vimanapura

HAL Airport

Yemalur

Bangalore topics

History

Geography

Lakes	Agara Lake Arekere Lake Bellandur Lake Hebbal lake Hesaraghatta Lake Madivala tank Puttenahalli Lake (JP Nagar) Puttenahalli Lake (Yelahanka) Sankey Tank Sarakki lake Vibhutipura Lake Yediyur Lake

Civic administration

Buildings

Transport

Roads

Places of worship

Culture

Periodic events	Bangalore Fashion Week Bangalore International Film Festival Bangalore Karaga Japan Habba

Cinemas	Kannada films

Sports	Banga Beats Bangalore Raptors Bengaluru Bulls Bengaluru FC Hindustan Aeronautics Limited SC Royal Challengers Bangalore

Others	Bibliography of Bangalore

Groups

Parks

Localities

North Bangalore	Banaswadi Chikkabanavara Cox Town Dasarahalli Fraser Town Ganganagar HBR Layout Hebbal Horamavu Jalahalli Kodigehalli Malleswaram Mathikere Palace Guttahalli Peenya Pulakeshinagar R. T. Nagar Ramamurthy Nagar Sadashivanagar Sahakara Nagar Sanjaynagar Sarvagnanagar Vidyaranyapura Vyalikaval Yelahanka Yeswanthpur

West Bangalore	Basaveshwaranagar Herohalli Kamalanagar Kengeri Mahalakshmi Layout Nagarbhavi Nandini Layout Nayandahalli Rajajinagar Ullalu Vijayanagar

Central Bangalore	Austin Town Bangalore Cantonment Bangalore Central Business District Bengaluru Pete Chamrajpet Chickpet Seshadripuram Shivajinagar Vasanth Nagar

East Bangalore	Bellandur Brookefield Channasandra CV Raman Nagar Domlur Halasuru Hoodi Immadihalli Indiranagar Jeevanbheemanagar Kadugodi Kaggadasapura Kodihalli Krishnarajapura Mahadevapura Marathahalli Murphy Town Murugeshpalya Varthur Vimanapura Whitefield Yemalur

South Bangalore	Adugodi Agara Arekere Arekere Mico Layout Banashankari Basavanagudi Begur Bilekahalli Bommanahalli Bommasandra BTM Layout Chandapura Electronics City Girinagar Hebbagodi HSR Layout Hulimavu Jayanagar Jigani J. P. Nagar Konanakunte Konappana Agrahara Koramangala Kumaraswamy Layout Madiwala Padmanabhanagar Puttenahalli Rajarajeshwari Nagar Ramanjaneyanagar Taverekere Thyagarajanagar Uttarahalli

Institutions

Education	List of schools in Bangalore Bishop Cotton Boys' School Baldwin Boys High School KV Hebbal Kensri School Little Flower Public School Mallya Aditi International School National Public School, Indiranagar St. Joseph's Indian High School St.Germain High School Venkat International Public School

Higher education	List of Bangalore colleges Acharya Institute of Technology Al-Ameen College of Law Bangalore University Bangalore Institute of Technology Bangalore Medical College B.M.S. College of Engineering Christ University Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering Indian Institute of Astrophysics Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Indian Institute of Science Indian Statistical Institute International Institute of Information Technology National Institute of Fashion Technology National Law School of India University National College National Centre for Software Technology Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of Engineering Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute Of Technology University of Agricultural Sciences University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship

Hospitals	Apollo Hospitals Bowring & Lady Curzon Hospitals HOSMAT Fortis Hospitals Minto eye hospital Narayana Hrudayalaya NCBS NIMHANS SDS Tuberculosis Sanatorium St. John's Hospital Vanivilas Women and Children Hospital Victoria Hospital

Industry	List of Bangalore telecom companies Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

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