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Census Town in West Bengal, India

Amtala

Amtala is a census town within the jurisdiction of the Bishnupur police station in the Bishnupur II CD block in the Alipore Sadar subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Amtala
Amtala · Biswarup Ganguly
The place

Amtala is a census town within the jurisdiction of the Bishnupur police station in the Bishnupur II CD block in the Alipore Sadar subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Amtala

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Vidyanagar College

    Vidyanagar College, established in 1963, is an undergraduate college in Vidyanagar, South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, India. It is affiliated with the University of Calcutta.

    4.7 km · college in West Bengal · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Amtala

Airports
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 36 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 272 km
  • Bhubaneswar → Amtala
    1049 km · quickest by road, 20h 58m · ₹8,700–10,900
  • Siliguri → Amtala
    5 km · quickest by road, 11 min · ₹46–55
  • Guwahati → Amtala
    1439 km · quickest by road, 26h 12m · ₹11,300–14,150
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Amtala

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Amtala. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inPoint to point autorickshaws are available for slightly longer routes.
  • Get inCycle rickshaws are available everywhere.
  • Get inCycle rickshaws are available at all stations for local travel.

From Wikivoyage: Kolkata/Southern Suburbs, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Sagar Island and GangasagarIN

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    82 km
  2. 02
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    477 km
  3. 03
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    493 km
  4. 04
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    683 km
  5. 05
    BaganMM

    12 ways of moving, 50 sources

    693 km

If you know how people move in Amtala – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Amtala

Amtala is 16 km from Maheshtala, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.