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Ballavpur

Ballavpur is a census town in the Raniganj CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India.

Ballavpur
Ballavpur · Biswarup Ganguly
The place

Ballavpur is a census town in the Raniganj CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ballavpur

3 places 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
    Raniganj Girls' College

    Raniganj Girls' College, established in 1980, is a college for girl students at Raniganj in Asansol, Paschim Bardhaman district. It offers undergraduate courses in arts, commerce and science.

    5.1 km · college in West Bengal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Government General Degree College, Mejia

    Kabi Jagadram Roy Government General Degree College, established in 2015, is the government degree college in Mejia, Bankura district. It offers undergraduate courses in science, arts and commerce.

    2 km · college in West Bengal · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Trivenidevi Bhalotia College

    Trivenidevi Bhalotia College, also known as Raniganj TDB College, is a co-educational institution and has the morning and day sections, established in 1957, at Raniganj, in Asansol, Paschim Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India. It is situated in a central location of Raniganj between NH-2 and Eastern Railway.

    3.6 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Kopai River

    A picturesque river north and west of Santiniketan, which meets the Bakreshwar River in Labhpur.

  2. 02
    Museum of Santal Culture

    A private community museum, which documents the history of the Santal tribe.

  3. 03
    Prakriti Bhavan

From Wikivoyage: Ballavpur, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Ballavpur

Airports
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 171 km
Stations
Raniganj railway station, 2.2 km
  • Kolkata → Ballavpur
    145 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · ₹1,070–1,330
  • Siliguri → Ballavpur
    345 km · quickest by road, 7h 8m · ₹2,960–3,710
  • Bhubaneswar → Ballavpur
    424 km · quickest by road, 8h 5m · ₹3,330–4,160
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ballavpur

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 Ballavpur. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    236 km
  2. 02
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    503 km
  3. 03
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    527 km
  4. 04
    GhandrukNP

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    627 km
  5. 05
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    652 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ballavpur

Ballavpur is 18 km from Āsansol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Raniganjneighborhood in Asansol4.4 km
  • AmkulaCity/town in West Bengal, India5.2 km
  • BanshraCity/town in West Bengal, India5.9 km
  • Harishpurtown in West Bengal, India5.9 km
  • Raghunathchakcensus Town in West Bengal, India1.3 km
  • Palashbancensus Town in West Bengal, India4.7 km