Chunabhatti

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Coordinates: 19°03′17″N 72°52′22″E / 19.054817°N 72.872744°E / 19.054817; 72.872744 Chunabhatti is a suburb of Mumbai and a part of Sion, Mumbai. It is located on the Eastern Express Highway. It is served by Chunabhatti railway station on the Harbour Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway.

Chunabhatti (Chuna - lime, bhatti - kiln) is home to the first cotton mill in Mumbai, Swadeshi Mills, which was registered in 1886 by Jamsetji Tata. There were numerous lime kiln in Chunabhatti. Parshuram Soma Gaikar was one of the lime kiln owners. Lime was used for construction and in cotton mills.


Chunabhatti surrounds the city's other areas such as Sion, Bandra, Wadala, Kurla, Chembur (AKP) and Ghatkopar.

Education[edit]

Chunabhatti boasts of good quality technical training institutes that are certified by the Government of India. The premier institutes here are, namely,
[1] 1. ATI (Advanced Training Institute)

2. IDEMI (Institute for Design of Electrical Measuring Instruments)
3. Central Labour Institute
4. Manohar Phalke Polytechnic Mumbai
5. Padmabhushan Vasantdada Patil Pratishthan's College of Engineering
6. KJ Somaiya Medical College And Research Centre
7. K. J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology

References[edit]

  1. Link for the Academic Calendar: "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)