Jafferkhanpet

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Jafferkhanpet
neighbourhood
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Coordinates: 13°01′25″N 80°13′25″E / 13.0235°N 80.2237°E / 13.0235; 80.223713°01′25″N 80°13′25″E / 13.0235°N 80.2237°E / 13.0235; 80.2237
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Chennai District
Metro	Chennai
Zone	Kodambakkam
Ward	138
Taluk	Mambalam
Government
• Body	Chennai Corporation
Languages
• Official	Tamil
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	600083
Vehicle registration	TN-09
Lok Sabha constituency	South chennai
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Saidapet
Planning agency	CMDA
Civic agency	Chennai Corporation
Website	www.chennai.tn.nic.in

Jafferkhanpet is a locality of Chennai, India. Guindy, K.K. Nagar, Ashok Nagar, MGR Nagar, Saidapet are its neighbourhood suburbs. You can reach Jafferkhanpet by travelling in the newly constructed Guindy flyover. This allows easier access to Vadapalani, Koyambedu bus stand in Chennai. Jafferkhanpet is twin locality of Ashok nagar

Location in Context[]

Transportation[]

Railway station,Airport,Bus terminus[]

The Suburban Railway station in Guindy is the closest station to Jafferkhanpet. Chennai International Airport is located at a distance of 8.3km. CMBT Bus terminus is located at a distance of 5.6km and it is accessible by many MTC buses (Approx. journey time 20 to 25 mins). The nearest bus depot is K.K.Nagar..

Buses[]

Most of the buses going to South Tamil Nadu,Pondicherry and Kerala go via Jafferkhanpet and stopping is one of the landmark. All the buses including SETC will stop at Kasi Theatre. Mofussil bus stop located very nearer to Kasi junction. There are frequent bus services to Velachery, Guindy, Chennai Airport, Tambaram, Mamallapuram, Thiruvanmiyur, Redhills, Avadi, Besant Nagar, Chennai Central and Egmore & Koyambedu from this place. Particularly 5E covers this area from Kasi theatre to Raghavan Colony. Small buses introduced in Jafferkhanpet from S35 Ashok Nagar to CIPET and S26 Ashoknagar to Valasaravakkam both service covers north and south bound of Jaffarkhanpet

Metro[]

Ashok Nagar metro station comes very near to Kasi theater.

Places[]

Kasi Junction[]

Kasi theatre signal is one of the busiest junctions (especially in peak hours) in this route. From this junction it connects Saidapet, K.K.Nagar, Guindy, CMBT, AIRPORT etc.

Localities Of Jafferkhanpet[]

R. Venkatraman nagar, Anjugam nagar, Raghavan colony,Gopal Street Bharathi Block,VSM Garden, Nethaji Nagar, Pillaiyar koil st, Mangai street, Valluvar street, Gnanaoli street,2nd street Gnanamani street, Kasi estate, Thiru nagar, Vasudevan nagar, Kabilar street, Sapthagiri colony, Sekar nagar, Pari nagar, Deivanambi street, Gangaiamman koil street, S.V.Chidambaram salai, Kambar Street.,Munuswamy Street,jothi ramalingam nagar

Educational Institutions[]

Schools and Colleges[]

• Little Flower Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Ashok Nagar
• M.A.K Matriculation Higher Secondary School at Thiru Nagar in Jafferkhanpet (Backside of Kasi Theatre)
• All Angels Matriculation Higher Secondary School at Bharathidasan Colony in Jafferkhanpet (Near RTO Office)

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Temples[]

• Muthu mariamman kovil(school street),
• Bhuvaneshwari Amman Kovil (Bharatidasan Colony)
• Karumariamman koil, 66th Street, RV nagar.
• Gangai amman Koil
• Anjaneyar koil
• Pillayar koil
• selva vinayagar koil(near venkateswara traders)

There a lot of other small Temples

Mosque[]

There is a Mosque in the Jafferkhanpet Main road

Bridges[]

The Kasi theatre Bridge over the Adyar River is a famous bridge in this area.

Politics[]

MA.Subramanian, (DMK) has been selected as MLA of this constituency from April 2015.

References[]