Greater Noida
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Greater Noida City ग्रेटर नोएडा सिटी گریٹر نوئیڈا |
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Aerial view of Greater Noida City
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| Nickname(s): GreNo, Greater Noida, Business Hub, Commercial Hub & Education Hub | |
 Greater Noida City
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| Coordinates: 28°28′N 77°31′E / 28.47°N 77.51°ECoordinates: 28°28′N 77°31′E / 28.47°N 77.51°E | |
| Country |
 India
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| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Gautam Buddh Nagar |
| Established | 1997 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority |
| • Body | GNIDA |
| • Chairman | Sanjay Aggarwal (IAS) |
| • CEO | Deepak Aggarwal (IAS) |
| • District Magistrate | Nagendra Prasad Singh (IAS) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 107,676 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Hindi, English |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| PIN | 201308 |
| Telephone code | 0120 |
| Vehicle registration | UP-16 |
| Nearest city | Noida |
| Literacy | 87% |
| Lok Sabha Constituency | Gautam Buddh Nagar |
| Highways | Noida-Greater Noida Expressway and Yamuna Expressway |
| Sports | Buddh International Circuit, Jaypee Sports City, Jaypee Sports Complex and Greater Noida Cricket Stadium |
| Golf Course | Jaypee Greens Golf Course |
| Website | greaternoida |
Greater Noida City (Hindi:ग्रेटर नोएडा सिटी) is a north Indian city with a population in excess of 100,000, located in the Gautam Budh Nagar district of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. It comes under the purview of the National Capital Region (NCR) of India. Situated 30 km south-east of capital city of New Delhi, it takes around 30 minutes to travel between the cities via the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway.
In the early 1980s, the government of India realised that the rapid rate at which Delhi was expanding would result in chaos, so they planned to develop residential and industrial areas around the capital to reduce the demographic burden. Before Greater Noida City, there were two areas that had been developed—Gurgaon, across the border from Haryana, and Noida, across the border with Uttar Pradesh.
Noida's infrastructure was carefully laid out, but the 1990s saw huge growth in the Indian economy. Migration to cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, and Bangalore exceeded planning estimates. Noida was developed to accommodate population growth for 20–25 years. The massive population influx to Delhi, however, caused it to overload in a mere 15 years, although intake is not complete and illegal mining remains a problem.
The government of Uttar Pradesh decided to develop another city as an extension to Noida with better planning. The idea was to create a world-class city approximately 25 km from Noida. A railway station near Boraki and an international airport were included later in the plan intending to develop Greater Noida as an independent city; the airport was however scrapped in early 2012, owing to environmental concerns.
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