Salt Lake City (Bidhan Nagar) Kolkata

Salt Lake City (Bidhan Nagar) Kolkata

Recently recognized for being the arena of Kolkata IT sectors, Salt Lake City (Bidhan Nagar), Kolkata is one of the developed centres in the city of Kolkata. Being quite a large township, Bidhan Nagar, named after the previous Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy, sometimes stands as an independent city located within Kolkata. This City consists of a planned township with a number of blocks.

Salt Lake City (Bidhan Nagar), Kolkata was established in the year 1962. In order to make the land suitable to dwell, the government in the said year hired a Yugoslavian firm to fill in the long existing swamps with the sand water. After an era of four decades the locale has evolved into a new commercial hub with all the variables of modernity and self adequacy.

The planned city is spread in a way that it contains a hexagonal park in the center and the adjoining blocks surrounding it. The Keshtopur Canal, an offshoot of the river Hooghly runs across the three sides of Salt Lake City. The wet lands of Salt Lake City provides habitat to some exotic migratory and resident birds. The place for years has witnessed the harmony between the birds and humans population dwelling at the same place.

Salt Lake City (Bidhan Nagar), Kolkata is blessed with all means of pleasure and leisure. The city is home to the largest stadium of India, amusement park, shopping malls, sports training centre and more. Nowadays by virtue of the spread of Information Technology offices, the region is also considered as a leading IT sector in the state. Some reputed institutes like Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Variable Energy Cyclotron and S N Bose Institute are to be found in the premises of the Salt Lake City.

Except the subway and railway services, accessibility to the region is provided by the roadways. Nazrul Islam Avenue and Canal Road link it with other Kolkata city premises. Buses and taxis are the easiest modes of transportation in this broad arena of the city.

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