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Census Town in West Bengal, India

Banshra

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

The place

Bansra is a census town in the Raniganj CD block of the Asansol Sadar subdivision in 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 Banshra

2 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.

    2 km · college in West Bengal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    2.4 km · College in West Bengal · Wikipedia

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Getting to Banshra

Airports
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 174 km
Stations
Raniganj railway station, 3.8 km
  • Kolkata → Banshra
    29 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · ₹260–325
  • Siliguri → Banshra
    483 km · quickest by air, 5h 24m · ₹6,550–9,880
  • Bhubaneswar → Banshra
    365 km · quickest by air, 5h 4m · ₹5,940–8,950
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Banshra

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 Banshra. 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

    241 km
  2. 02
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    499 km
  3. 03
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    524 km
  4. 04
    GhandrukNP

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    623 km
  5. 05
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    647 km

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Around it

Next door to Banshra

Banshra is 16 km from Āsansol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.