Beautiful-Bhopal
Bhopal
भोपाल
"City of Lakes"
— Capital —
Bhopal भोपाल
State Madhya Pradesh
Municipal Commissioner: Manish Singh
Mayor: Krishna Gaur
Population
• Density 2,368,145 (2011)
Bhopal is the capital and the second largest city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of Bhopal District and Bhopal Division. The city was the capital of the former Bhopal State. Bhopal is also known as the City of Lakes for its various natural as well as artificial lakes. Bhopal is one of the greenest cities in India.
The city attracted international attention after the Bhopal disaster, when a Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide manufacturing plant leaked a mixture of deadly gases including methyl isocyanate on the intervening night of 2 / 3 December 1984, leading to the worst industrial disasters in the history of industrialization and a loss of thousands of lives. Many more were rendered sick and have been facing chronic health problems such as psychological and neurological disabilities, blindness, skin, vision and breathing disorders and the new born children still suffer from serious birth defects, even after generations. The soil and ground water near the factory site has been contaminated by the toxic wastes and other chemicals still leaking out from the factory. The Indian government, however, maintains that no such pollution has taken place or that any such toxins are even present at the site. Since then, Bhopal has been a center of protests and campaigns which have been joined by billions from across the globe.
A A-2 class city, Bhopal is an important economic, industrial, educational and political center of India and houses various institutions and installations of state as well as some of national importance. Some of these include ISRO's Master Control Facility, the CSIR Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI), Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER Bhopal), School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, Indian Institute of Forest Management and the (approved, under-construction) All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal. As an urban agglomeration Bhopal is the largest city of Madhya Pradesh, with the second largest being Indore.
Visitor's Point:
Gohar Mahal on the banks of Upper Lake.
Gohar Mahal; VIP Road and the Upper Lake can be seen in the distance.
VIP Road and Upper Lake.
A view of the Upper Lake & VIP Road.
Upper Lake as viewed from Manav Sangrahalaya
Upper Lake Boat Club, a tourist spot as well as a place for adventure and water sports in Bhopal.
Tourists at Upper Lake.
Upper Lake viewed from VIP Road.
Taj Mahal, Bhopal.
Taj-ul-Masajid.
Another view of Taj-ul-Masajid.
Birla Temple.
A Wall Decoration & Advertisement by MP Tourism, near Old secretariat.