Beliaghata

Beliaghata
Beleghata
Neighbourhood in Kolkata (Calcutta)
Country  India
State West Bengal
City Kolkata
District Kolkata
Municipal Corporation Kolkata Municipal Corporation
KMC wards 33, 34, 35, 36, 57
Population
 • Total For population see linked KMC ward pages
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
Area code(s) +91 33
Lok Sabha constituency Kolkata Uttar
Vidhan Sabha constituency Beliaghata

Beliaghata, also known as Beleghata, is a neighbourhood of Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, in Kolkata district, West Bengal, India. Subhas Sarovar is one of the famous tourist attraction of Kolkata present in the locality of Beliaghata.

History

The East India Company obtained from the Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar, in 1717, the right to rent from 38 villages surrounding their settlement. Of these 5 lay across the Hooghly in what is now Howrah district. The remaining 33 villages were on the Calcutta side. After the fall of Siraj-ud-daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal, it purchased these villages in 1758 from Mir Jafar, and reorganised them. These villages were known en-bloc as Dihi Panchannagram and Beliaghata was one of them. It was considered to be a suburb beyond the limits of the Maratha Ditch.[1][2][3]

In 1889, the 'fringe areas' of Maniktala, Ultadanga and Beliaghata were added to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.[4]

Geography

Beliaghata overall is a highly populated locality due to its residing poor to lower-middle-class people of the Kolkataian society. Low height house are the main cause of reduction for space of roads. Beliaghata is well connected by Beliaghata Main Road which is the only road suitable for proper transportation. Through Beliaghata, goes a Canal;at the side of which the Canal Side Road named as Chaulpatty Road help vehicles to move around through the densely populated Beliaghata. Mostly pedestrians can pass through the narrow roads of Beliaghata. Hem Chandra Naskar Road (C.I.T. Road) from CIT More and Raja Rajendra Lal Mitra Road from Alochhaya Cinema crossing connects Beleghata to Airport via VIP road.

Police district

Beliaghata police station is part of the Eastern Suburban division of Kolkata Police. Located at P-57 CIT Road, Kolkata-700010, it has jurisdiction over the police district which is bordered in the north by Narkeldanga Main Road from the crossing of Charakdanga Road up to Phoolbagan C.I.T. Road, Suren Sarkar Road up to Radha Madhab Dutta Garden Lane (roads included), in the east by the filled up canal (canal excluded), in the south by Chawlpatty Road (road included), and in the west by Charakdanga Road (road excluded).[5]

Ultadanga Women police station covers all police districts under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Suburban division i.e Beliaghata, Entally, Maniktala, Narkeldanga, Ultadanga, Tangra and Phoolbagan.[5]

Transport

Few AC buses ply on the Beliaghata Main Road, which is one of city's majority connector. It connects Eastern Metropolitan Bypass to Central Kolkata. Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, in short EM Bypass being the highway of Kolkata. Beliaghata Main Road is congested with Non-AC buses which ply from several parts of the city. Passengers face major problem which is delay in transport as most north boarding and south boarding buses have to ply through the congested Beliaghata Main Road.

However, Beliaghata have Police Station in CIT More near Subhas Sarovar and this Police Station is in control of a huge area. Traffic being the main problem here, police are working hard to make smooth flow of vehicles. Belighata has 4 major crossing points one is CIT More, second lies between CIT More and Sealdah i.e. Alochhaya Cinema bus stop and third crossing over the Beleghata Canal (Khalpol) and the fourth itself in Sealdah which the major in city national railway station.

Now with the advent of the East-West metro Corridor, Beliaghata will be connected as Phoolbagan will have its own metro stop thus linking it to the rest of the city.

Beliaghata is close in proximity to Subhas Sarovar Lake which is a waterbody with an attraction on its own and recent developments have led to beautification of the area. Coordinates: 22°34′N 88°23′E / 22.567°N 88.383°E / 22.567; 88.383

Kolkata/East travel guide from Wikivoyage

References

  1. ↑ "District Census Handbook Kolkata, Census of India 2011, Series 20, Part XII A" (PDF). Pages 6-10: The History. Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  2. ↑ Cotton, H.E.A., Calcutta Old and New, first published 1909/reprint 1980, pages 103-4 and 221, General Printers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
  3. ↑ Nair, P.Thankappan, The Growth and Development of Old Calcutta, in Calcutta, the Living City, Vol. I, pp. 14-15, Edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, Oxford University Press, 1995 edition.
  4. ↑ Nair, P.Thankappan, The Growth and Development of Old Calcutta, in Calcutta, the Living City, Vol. I, p. 13, Edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, Oxford University Press, 1995 edition.
  5. 1 2 "Kolkata Police". Eastern Suburban Division. KP. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
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