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Chamrail

Chamrail is a census town in Bally Jagachha CD Block of Howrah Sadar subdivision in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Chamrail
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The place

Chamrail is a census town in Bally Jagachha CD Block of Howrah Sadar subdivision in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chamrail

5 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
    Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute

    Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, formerly Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University or simply Vivekananda University, is an education institute deemed-to-be-university headquartered at Belur, West Bengal, with campuses spanning multiple states in India. Established with the idea of actualizing Swami Vivekananda's vision of education, the institute is administered by the Ramakrishna Mission.

    5.5 km · Indian education institute · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hindi University, Howrah

    Hindi University is a non-affiliating Public research university located in Howrah, West Bengal.

    5.2 km · state public university in Howrah, West Bengal, India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira

    Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira is an autonomous degree college of India located in Belur, Howrah near Belur Math.

    5.6 km · college in Howrah, India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    MCKV Institute of Engineering

    VIE is an UGC recognised Autonomous Institute, accredited by NAAC with Grade 'A' and approved by AICTE. It is affiliated to Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal and offers NBA accredited programmes. The institute offers bachelor's and master's degrees in various engineering streams as well as in management studies.

    5 km · Indian engineering college · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Narasinha Dutt College

    Narasinha Dutt College is an undergraduate college in Howrah, West Bengal, India. Established in 1924, it claims to be the oldest college in Howrah district.

    5.1 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.

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Getting to Chamrail

Airports
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 15 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 253 km
Stations
Santragachi Junction railway station, 5.4 km · Dankuni Junction railway station, 5.5 km · Bally railway station, 5 km · Belur railway station, 4.1 km · Belur Math railway station, 5.3 km
  • Bhubaneswar → Chamrail
    367 km · quickest by air, 4h 12m · ₹5,450–8,380
  • Siliguri → Chamrail
    453 km · quickest by air, 4h 32m · ₹6,060–9,310
  • Guwahati → Chamrail
    526 km · quickest by air, 5h 6m · ₹6,580–10,080
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chamrail

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 Chamrail. 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
  1. 01
    Sagar Island and GangasagarIN

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    111 km
  2. 02
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    456 km
  3. 03
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    473 km
  4. 04
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    657 km
  5. 05
    ViswemaIN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    677 km

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Around it

Next door to Chamrail

Chamrail is 6 km from Howrah, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Monoharpurhuman settlement5.6 km
  • Chakaparacensus town in West Bengal, India5.1 km
  • Bamunaricensus town in West Bengal, India5.2 km
  • Nibrahuman settlement in Howrah district, Presidency division, West Bengal, India5.6 km
  • Jagadishpurcensus town in Howrah district, Presidency division, West Bengal, India2.4 km