Bankra
Worth seeing in and around Bankra
6 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.
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- 03Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur
Institute of Technology in West Bengal, India
6 km · Wikipedia - 04
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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.
Getting to Bankra
- Airports
- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 18 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 257 km
- Stations
- Santragachi Junction railway station, 2.2 km · Dasnagar railway station, 3.2 km · Ramrajatala railway station, 2.5 km · Tikiapara railway station, 4.8 km · Maurigram railway station, 3.4 km
- Bhubaneswar → Bankra362 km · quickest by air, 4h 21m · ₹5,520–8,480
- Siliguri → Bankra457 km · quickest by air, 4h 41m · ₹6,130–9,410
- Guwahati → Bankra531 km · quickest by air, 5h 15m · ₹6,650–10,180
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Bankra
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 Bankra. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe ferry services to cross the Hooghly River from Kolkata to Howrah is very convenient to zip across both cities.
- Get inOn the Kolkata side, the ferries link to such jetties at Bagbazar, Armenian, Fairlie, Chandpal Ghat and Babughat.
- Get inBuy the ticket before you board the ferry and retain the ticket till after you have crossed to the other side and have shown it to the ticket checker near the exit gate or else you will be penalised!
From Wikivoyage: Howrah, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Bankra – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Bankra
Bankra is 5 km from Howrah, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.