VIP Road, Kolkata

VIP Road, a busy thoroughfare connecting the city with airport

VIP Road (officially Kazi Nazrul Islam Sarani) is a major thoroughfare connecting the city of Kolkata with the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport. Located in the North-Eastern outskirts of the city, it was built in 1962 to provide speedy connection with the city and its sole airport. VIP Road falls under the administration of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation and South Dumdum Municipality. To reduce traffic jams especially in the crossings of Baguiati & Lake Town, a flyover has been constructed over the stretch between Dum Dum Park and Teghoria, which opened in March 2015. Another flyover connecting VIP Road with EM Bypass has been opened in 2011, reducing traffic bottlenecks at Ultadanga crossing.

Description

VIP road
Busy VIP Road at Ultadanga at night
Panorama of the Fly Over on the VIP Road in the crossing of Baguiati. The right end of the flyover leads to Lake Town, Bangur, Ultadanga and the left end leads to Baguiati, Teghoria, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.
  • The VIP Road runs from Ultadanga to Jessore Road near Dum Dum, ending near the entrance of the Dum Dum Airport, the sole airport serving the metropolis. Several locations lie along this road, such as Ultadanga, Lake Town, Bangur Avenue, Baguiati, Keshtopur and Tegharia. In fact, growth of VIP Road has facilitated the growth of these localities after independence. These localities enjoy extremely high density of population.
  • The stretch of VIP Road north of Baguiati are home to numerous residential complexes and shopping malls.
  • VIP Road provides access to the planned township of Rajarhat & New Town via a connecting road at Baguiati Jora Mandir.
  • Belgharia Expressway, which provides access to NH2 and NH6, begins 2 km north of the junction with Jessore Road.
  • VIP Road runs just north of Salt Lake Sector 1 and is well connected to it by several footbridges and kheyas. Lake Town Footbridge will lead you to the part of Salt Lake from where you can easily reach 4 no tank. Similarly, the footbridge at Kestopur will lead you to Baishakhi bus stop in Salt Lake.

Landmarks

Hotels

A number of budget hotels are located along the northern stretch of VIP Road mostly from Baguiati to Dum Dum Airport.

  • Hotel Rupashi Bangla
  • Hotel Host
  • Hotel Downtown
  • Hotel King's Crown

Legacy

VIP Road was renamed after the great revolutionary poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.

Feluda or Pradosh Chandra Mitter and his friend Jatayu or Lal Mohon Ganguly and Felu's cousin Tapesh Ranjan Mitter are seen in a taxi driving down V.I.P Road towards Dum Dum Airport in a taxi in the movie Bombaiyer Bombete.

Alternate Route

Another bypass route (Major Arterial Road) to the airport via Rajarhat has been created, which connects Haldirams on VIP Road to Chingrighata on EM Bypass, passing through Rajarhat.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ridhisidhibanquet.com/location.html
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