Shahjahan Road (

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: शाहजहाँ मार्ग / रोड) is an important road of central

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. It stretches from the

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junction on the north side and to the Taj Mansingh Hotel at the junction of Mansingh Road, Aurangzeb road Humayun Road,

Prithviraj Road Prithviraj Road (Hindi: पृथ्वीराज मार्ग, Urdu: پرتھوی راج مارگ ''Pṛthvīrāj Mārg'') is one of the historic & influential roads of New Delhi. It is known as the Billionaires' Row of New Delhi and has som ...

and a road to

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on the south. Also lined up on the Shahjahan Road are government houses for High Court Judges, Ministers and senior officials & bureaucrats in the Government of India. It is named after the Mughal Emperor of India,

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Important places

It houses the famous UPSC or

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headquarters at Dholpur House. Also the Army officers Mess and the Kota House. In the nearby Jamnagar House is the headquarters of Central Wakf Council.

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