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Loni Nagar Palika Parisad
Loni Nagar Palika Parisad was first established on 31 March 1971 as a Nagar Panchayat. Its office is located in Khanna Nagar. According to 2011 census, its population is 516,082. Its area is 34.68 square km. Loni Nagar Palika Parisad is divided into 45 wards. It has total of 36 employees.
Loni Tehsil
Loni became a new tehsil in Ghaziabad district, within Meerut division, with its headquarters at Roopnagar Industrial Area, about 17 km west of the district headquarters. The tehsil comprises about 49 villages. This will be the basic administrative unit that will allow the people to raise their grievances and get them addressed quickly. Tehsil forms the grassroots administrative setup that takes care of land revenue. The order to this effect was issued by principal secretary, revenue, Kishan Singh Atoria.
Loni Assembly comes under the Ghaziabad. As per notification No. 282/UP/2006, Loni also became a separate assembly constituency, known as 53-Loni. Loni also has its own independent Nagar Palika Parisad. Current MP of Ghaziabad is Vijay Kumar Singh, BJP. Current MLA is Nand Kishor Gurjar, BJP. Current Chairman of Loni is Ranjita Dhama. The Loni assembly constituency includes the following Patwari Circles :
Demographics
, Loni had a population of 516,082. Males constitute 275,025 of the population and females 241,057. The total number of households in Loni is 89,634. Loni has an average literacy rate of 75.24%, higher than the national average of 74.04%: male literacy is 83.14%, and female literacy is 66.15%. In Loni, around 15% of the population is under six years of age.
Loni has a moderate road network connecting to the Delhi-Saharanpur Road, with bus service provided by UPSRTC buses. The bus stand of UPSRTC is located near loni crossing. Earlier DTC has also provided the bus services to connect loni with Delhi but currently the bus services by DTC is not available in Loni. Indira Puri was the location of the DTC Bus Terminal for Delhi Buses, where DTC Route Number 273 used to be available. Loni is 12 km from ISBT Kashmiri Gate and Anand Vihar Terminal, and 8 km from Ghaziabad. A new bus terminal for private bus operators is near ALT Center, Raj Nagar, which is called ALT Bus Stand. The most common system of transportation is shared autos, which run between Shahdara metro station, Pawi, Loni, Tiraha, and Indrapuri. Two bus routes go to the UP Border, Shahdara, and Seelampur metro stations. Loni Depot is a UP Bus Terminal for UPSRTC Buses, where buses are available to Shamli, Baraut, Baghpat, Saharanpur, Gramin Sewa Rampark Ext., Khajuri Chowk, by Pusta Road, Pavi Tiraha to Khajuri, etc.
Rail
Loni is also connected via railway. Its main stations are Noli Railway Station, Behta Hazipur Halt, Gotra Halt, and Nursratabad Kharkhar. NOLI, which is within the Northern Railway zone of Indian Railways, is close to New Delhi and Ghaziabad railway stations and connects Loni to Delhi through Shahdara and Uttar Pradesh. NOLI handles over 26 trains and serves about 12,000 passengers every day. There are four intercity trains which start from or pass through NOLI. A warehouse of FCI at the station is now used as a container depot.
Delhi Metro
Loni now connected with Metro services through Pink Line. The DMRC has a station within Loni, at Shiv Vihar, which is on a 3 km extension of the Yamuna Vihar line to Shiv Vihar, in the third phase of expansion of the Metro network under Pink Line with Metro feeder bus service. The Shiv Vihar station is serving large part of Loni which was previously dependent on shared auto. Shiv Vihar station is catering to a large number of commuters from Loni, with its population of at least 5 lakh people. It is also close to Delhi, just 8 km from Shahdara and Seelampur Metro stations.
In 2001, GAIL commissioned the world's longest, and India's first, cross-country LPG transmission pipeline, from Jamnagar to Loni. GAIL's LPG transmission business includes the 1927-km LPG pipeline network that connects the western, northern and southern parts of India. This includes the world's longest exclusively LPG pipeline from Jamnagar, Gujarat, to Teela Loni, near Delhi. GAIL's LPG pipelines can transport 3.8 million tonnes per year of LPG, and have the capacity to supply more than 20% of the LPG consumed in the country. There are huge gas distribution terminals in Loni. Indane and Bharat gas are supplying cooking gas from here to north India.
