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Birati

Birati is a neighbourhood in North Dumdum of North 24 Parganas district in the state of West Bengal, India.

Birati
Birati · Dietmar Rabich
The place

Birati is a neighbourhood in North Dumdum of North 24 Parganas district in the state of West Bengal, India. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). The locality is adjacent to the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Birati

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
    Acharya Prafulla Chandra College

    College in West Bengal

    3.9 km · 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 Birati

Airports
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 2 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 240 km
Stations
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, 2.2 km · Dum Dum Cantt railway station, 3.5 km · Jai Hind metro station, 2 km · Dum Dum Cantonment metro station, 3.3 km · Birati railway station, 100 m
  • Bhubaneswar → Birati
    378 km · quickest by air, 3h 45m · ₹5,190–8,020
  • Siliguri → Birati
    450 km · quickest by air, 4h 5m · ₹5,800–8,950
  • Guwahati → Birati
    516 km · quickest by air, 4h 39m · ₹6,320–9,710
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Birati

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe main line branches of to the Chord Link Line from {{marker|type |wikidata By car By ferry=== There are a set of parallel bridges across the Hooghly River - Vivekananda Setu and Nivedita Setu - between Dakshineswar and Bally.
  • Get inThere are numerous ferry points (locally known as ghats) connecting the two banks of the Hooghly River.

From Wikivoyage: Kolkata/Northern 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

    118 km
  2. 02
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    443 km
  3. 03
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    460 km
  4. 04
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    647 km
  5. 05
    ViswemaIN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    664 km

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

Around it

Next door to Birati

Birati is 6 km from Kāmārhāti, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Dum DumCity in West Bengal, India3.5 km
  • North Dum DumCity in West Bengal, India1.7 km
  • Talbandhahuman settlement in North 24 Parganas district, Presidency division, West Bengal, India3.1 km
  • Muragachhahuman settlement in North 24 Parganas district, Presidency division, West Bengal, India3 km
  • Chandpurhuman settlement in North 24 Parganas district, Presidency division, West Bengal, India2.4 km
  • Motilal Colonyneighbourhood in Presidency, West Bengal, India2.1 km