Thane East, Thane

Overview

Thane East, located in north-eastern part of Mumbai City. It is a metropolitan city coincides entirely with Thane Taluka, one of the seven talukas of the Thane District. Mira Bhayandar, Bhiwandi, Kalyan, Ulhasnagar, Dombivli, Ghansoli, Airoli, Mulund East, Kanjurmarg East, Goregaon, Borivali, Malad West, and Mahape are its neighbouring localities. Kopri Road, Lokmanya Tilak Path, Shree Swami Samarth Road are arterial roads to Thane East which further connects with the Mumbai-Agra NH 48 via Service Road. Thane is Just 5 km away from Thane East via Chendani Bunder Road. NH 48 is just 7 km away from Thane East Via Eastern Express Highway.

Connectivity

It has excellent connectivity to the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport which is located at a driving distance of 25.8 km via Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road that can be reached in less than an hour.

Thane is connected with neighbouring suburbs through Central and Trans-Harbour Line Suburban railway network. Thane is a railway junction for the Thane-Vashi Harbour Line and Central Line. It has become the busiest station in Mumbai and one of the busiest in India.

Kalva, Thane , Mulund, Nahur, Bhandup, kanjurmarg East, Airoli, Mumbra are its nearby railway stations. However, Thane Railway Junction is the nearest railway station to Thane East which is located at a distance of 1 km via Rambhau Mhalgi Road/Station Road.

Ghatkopar is the nearest Metro Station to Thane East which is located at a distance of 16.5 km via Eastern Express Highway/Mumbai-Agra National Highway.

Proposed & Planned Infrastructure

The Maharashtra cabinet has accorded approval to the much-debated new metro project for Thane district, besides another Metro corridor to provide an east-west connectivity within Mumbai.

The town planning department of the Thane Municipal Corporation has proposed Station Area Traffic Improvement Scheme (SATIS) at Kalwa this will be the third after Thane west and east. The project will link Parsik, Kharegaon and Navi Mumbai.

Besides this, the MMRDA has approved an elevated road on the Thane-Belapur industrial corridor, which includes a 1.7 crore long tunnel.

Civil construction for the two routes - DN Nagar-Mandale Metro-2B and Wadala-Ghatkopar-Kasarvadavali Metro 4 has got approval and construction work has been started in these two routes.

After the railways gave its approval for the second Station Area Traffic Improvement Scheme (SATIS) on the east side of the Thane railway station, Thane Municipal Corporation is planning to build 2.23-km elevated road from Eastern Express Highway to Thane station. The elevated road will start from the gurdwara along the Eastern Express Highway, connect to the SATIS deck and extend till Kanhaiya Nagar. The road will be a three-lane one up to the SATIS deck and a two-lane from the deck to Kanhaiya Nagar.

The railways has already given in-principle approval for the construction of a 6.5-m deck on 8,900 sqm in the SATIS 2 project being developed on east side of the station, will be operational by 2020. It will have multi level parking, a separate deck for buses, a commercial building with food plaza, restrooms, ticket counter and citizen facilitation centre.,

Thanekars can expect relief from traffic congestion in Kopri area as the TMC has decided to build an elevated bridge in Thane east under the SATIS scheme.

Infrastructural Development ( Social & Physical)

Thane East possesses best-in-class infrastructural facilities encompassing: It has many reputed schools and educational institutions in its vicinity. Some of them are CP Goenka International School, M. Council Primary School No-1, Home Of Faith English High School, Lodha World School, St. Mary’s High School, Shree Maa Vidya English Primary School, DRV Dav Public School, D.A.V. Public School New Generation, Liliput Fun School to name a few.

Seven shopping malls cum multiplexes- R Mall, Viviana Mall, Siddhachal Shopping Center, Sunrise Shopping Centre, LIC Shopping Centre Center, V Mall and Lokhandwala Shopping Centre are situated nearby Thane East.

It is home to some of the most famous restaurants, pubs, cafes and eating joints such as Kadam’s Cafe, Cafe Coffee Day (Airoli), Cafe Coffee Day Naupada, Cafe Palms (kanjurmarg East), Chat Cafe (Thane), Cafe Noorani and many more.

Some of the renowned hospitals providing healthcare facilities to the residents of Thane East are Thane Health Care Hospital, Spandan Hospital, Swatantryaveer VD Savarkar BMC Hospital and Risk Care Hospital.