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Neighbourhood in Maheshtala, West Bengal, India

Batanagar

Batanagar is a neighbourhood in Maheshtala of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Batanagar
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Batanagar is a neighbourhood in Maheshtala of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Batanagar

Airports
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 28 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 267 km
Stations
Budge Budge railway station, 3.7 km · Nangi railway station, 1.5 km · Akra railway station, 2.7 km
  • Bhubaneswar → Batanagar
    351 km · quickest by air, 4h 48m · ₹5,720–8,750
  • Siliguri → Batanagar
    467 km · quickest by air, 5h 8m · ₹6,330–9,680
  • Guwahati → Batanagar
    542 km · quickest by air, 5h 42m · ₹6,850–10,450
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Batanagar

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    97 km
  2. 02
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    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    470 km
  3. 03
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    487 km
  4. 04
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    673 km
  5. 05
    ViswemaIN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    690 km

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Next door to Batanagar

Batanagar is 3 km from Maheshtala, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • MaheshtalaCity in West Bengal, India2.9 km
  • Nalpurcensus town in West Bengal, India3.9 km
  • Raghudebbatihuman settlement3 km
  • Sarengahuman settlement in Sankrail community development block, Howrah Sadar subdivision, Howrah district, India3.3 km
  • Nungilocality of Maheshtala1.8 km
  • Calcutta Riversidehuman settlement in India300 m