Danapur Cantonment
Danapur Cantonment or Danapur Cantt is a cantonment town in Danapur, Patna District in the state of Bihar, India.
Danapur Cantonment or Danapur Cantt is a cantonment town in Danapur, Patna District in the state of Bihar, India. Danapur is a category II cantonment, established in 1765. The board consists of 14 members including 7 elected members. Danapur Cantonment, located on the outskirts of Patna, is the second oldest cantonment in India, after Barrackpur Cantonment, West Bengal. Danapur is the regimental centre of the Bihar Regiment (BRC). It was earlier called Bankipore Cantonment. Initially, it was set up at Bankipore but later set up in the Danapur area in 1766–67.
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Worth seeing in and around Danapur Cantonment
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.
- 01Amity University, Patna
Amity University is a state private university located in Patna, India. The university was established in 2017 by the Amity Education Group through the Bihar Private University Bill, 2017.
3.9 km · state private university in Patna, Bihar, India · Wikipedia
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Getting to Danapur Cantonment
- Airports
- Lal Bahadur Shastri (VNS), 218 km · Tribhuvan (KTM), 232 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 263 km
- Varanasi → Danapur Cantonment206 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · ₹1,530–1,920
- Siliguri → Danapur Cantonment360 km · quickest by road, 6h 42m · ₹2,880–3,600
- Lucknow → Danapur Cantonment431 km · quickest by road, 7h 11m · ₹3,240–4,050
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No local-transport research exists yet for Danapur Cantonment
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 Danapur Cantonment. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are prepaid and shared taxis/rickshaws available throughout the day between two stations.
- Get inShared rickshaws (₹30) leave from south side of Patna Junction.
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Danapur Cantonment is 12 km from Patna, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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