page_title: Mahatma Gandhi Road, Vijayawada
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Mahatma Gandhi Road, Vijayawada / History
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of MG Riad in Vijayawada
context_page_description: Mahatma Gandhi Road, popularly known as Bandar Road, is a boulevard and major road in the Indian city of Vijayawada.The road starts at Benz Circle, busiest traffic circle in the city and continues to Avatar Park, where it connects to Eluru Road which is also a major road. It runs almost parallel to the Bandar Canal. The National Highway 9 runs parallel to this road on the other side of the Bandar Canal, merging into Bandar Road at Benz Circle. The name "Bandar" was originally the name of Machilipatan Road, which the current Bandar Road intersects.
  Its official name comes from Mahatma Gandhi, the inspirational leader of the Indian Independence Movement in the early twentieth century.
context_section_description: Bandar Road's has an average width of 100 feet (30 m) although it is not of uniform width throughout. This road's creation altered the landscape of Vijayawada and was the catalyst for the erection of Multiplexes and the Prominent Building.
caption: Bandar Road in Vijayawada
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