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Chhawla or Najafgarh drain city forest

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Chhawla or Najafgarh drain city forest consists of forestry plantations near the town of Chhawla on both embankments of Najafgarh drain, which is the delhi-end of Sahibi River originating from Aravalli range mountain in Rajasthan, flowing along the border of Haryana state and south west Delhi in India before confluencing with Yamuna. It provides refuge to local and migratory wildlife specially waterfowl and other water birds. The area is a subset of the entire Najafgarh drain in rural south west Delhi with forested plantations on both its embankments which has been proposed as the Najafgarh drain bird sanctuary.

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Kangan Heri

Kanganheri village is in Kapashera sub division of South West District in Delhi of the Indian state. It is located 12 km west of the District headquarters in kapashera. It is an Ahir dominant village. It is 9 km from Dwarka sub city and 1.5 km from Chhawla BSF camp. Kangan Heri is surrounded by Gurgaon Tehsil (south), West Delhi Tehsil (north), Delhi Tehsil and South Delhi Tehsil (east). Gurgaon, Delhi, Noida, Bahadurgarh, Jhajjar and Faridabad are the nearby cities. Hindi is the local language. Around 300 years ago the ancestors of Kangan Heri migrated from Kaneena of Rewari district in Haryana State. People of Kangan Heri give high respect to Kaneena and call it as Kaneena Dham (कणीणा धाम). Most of the people are government servants, many of whom are in class one or two categories. Farming is also done by many people. Education: It has two government schools and two private school, that are given below:- 1. SDMC, up to primary level. 2. Government Co-ed Senior secondary School, Kangan Heri, for senior secondary education. 3. Sri Krishna Vidyapeeth Public School.(Private School), from nursery to 5th class. 4. Cosmic world school Worship places. In spite of its small population, it has 4-5 temples in it. There are two famous historical temples, Shri Radha Krishna temple and Shri Shiv temple. People also have deep faith in "Dada Kheda". A temple situated away from residential place but within the vicinity of Kangan Heri. The road leading to that temple is named as "Jai Dada Kheda Marg". Political Background: This area comes under Ghuman Hera ward. Recently Shashi Yadav is the councillor (Nigam Parsad), (B.J.P Party) belongs to Kangan Heri village. Tourist Place: A tourist place named HARITMA, which is built by Delhi government in this village attracts the tourist by its greenery and peaceful environment. And also attracts most by its adventurous sports. Facts & Findings: 3 Choupals with big open and built up space are also here, where every day activities of village taking place like om shanti classes, tailoring classes to girls, general village meetings etc. This village also given officers like IAS Vandana Rao serving now as a SDM at Diu and IFS JYOTI YADAV. Two Highways are purposed to be built in future from North and South direction of the village. The people of this village are educated, well mannered, calm, hardworking and taking care of their culture and ancient traditions, providing their countless best in making India Great.

Dwarka Sector 21 metro station
Dwarka Sector 21 metro station

The Dwarka Sector 21 metro station is located on the Blue Line of the Delhi Metro. This station was built as an extension together with Dwarka Sector 8 in order to serve Dwarka residents better and provide interchange with the Delhi Airport Express. It was designed by Absolute Architecture. The station was inaugurated on 30 October 2010 after the completion of successful trials and approval from the railway inspector.Interchange to the Delhi Airport Express are available. Besides serving as a station for the Delhi Metro, the upper levels of the building has been rented out and converted into the a mall, called Pacific D21 Mall. The building consists of the station on the underground levels and the mall and commercials activities on the remaining upper two levels including the ground floor which largelly consits of the station premises with the remaining space being covered by mall rent-outs. It will also be the first Delhi Metro station to feature hotel rooms within the complex.As of August 2014 it had the largest rooftop solar plant in the city. Through this plant, the DMRC plans to produce power for all operations at Dwarka Sector 21 station. The plant has a capacity of 500 kW, and is the largest of its kind in NCR under the Renewable Energy Service model and is a result of cooperation between DMRC and Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) through 'ComSolar', a project that supports commercialization of solar energy in India.This station has been installed with platform screen doors on the orange line.