Vasai, a city in Thane District, Maharashtra, India; known as Bassein during Portuguese rule.
It has 2 platforms as of now, where both only cater to Churchgate and Borivali (Or Virar) bound slow trains.
The region of Vasai (formerly known as Bassein), like Goa, was evangelized by the Portuguese missionaries in the sixteenth century.
Shri Hitendra Thakur was the guest of honour and the current mayor of the Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation, Shri Rajeev Patil also shared the honour with him.
There is a plan to form Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation by merging the municipalities of Vasai, Navghar-Manickpur, Nala Sopara and Virar.
Shaw was born in Thane, Maharashtra, and enrolled aged three in the Virar cricket academy by his father.