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Mira-Bhayandar

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Mira-Bhayandar, India
Mira-Bhayandar, India. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

About Mira-Bhayandar

Mira-Bhayandar is a city and municipal corporation in Thane district in the state of Maharashtra, India located in the northern part of Salsette Island before the Vasai Creek, and shares a border with North Mumbai. Mira-Bhayandar is administered by Mira-Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC), with a population at the 2011 Census of 809,378. Mira-Bhayandar is a part of Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and Mira-Bhayander, Vasai-Virar (MBVV) Police Commissionerate.

As of April 2026, Mira-Bhayandar got its first metro opened.This is the first Metro line in Thane District.The Phase 1 Of Metro line 9 has been opened from Dahisar (E) to Kashigaon.This phase consists 4 stations spanning 4.7 km.The stations opened in this phase are:

Miragaon metro station [Interchange with Approved Metro Line 10]

Dahisar East metro station [Interchange with Metro Line 2A]

The Mira-Bhayandar Municipal Council was formed on 12 June 1985 by incorporating five Gram Panchayats. Later, on 23 January 1990, four more village panchayats—Raigad-Murdhe, Dongri, Uttan, and Versova—were included.

On 27 August 2022, after the five-year term of the elected...

Overview adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA. Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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