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Garia

Garia is a neighbourhood of South Kolkata in the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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The place

Garia is a neighbourhood of South Kolkata in the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is bordered by the neighbourhoods of Jadavpur in the north, Bansdroni/Tollygunge in the north-west, Santoshpur/Mukundapur in the north-east and Narendrapur/Rajpur Sonarpur in the south. It is on the banks of Adi Ganga.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Garia

9 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 Residential College, Narendrapur

    Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur is an institute for pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate studies in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is an autonomous college located in Narendrapur, Kolkata.

    2.7 km · Autonomous college · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kishore Bharati Krirangan

    Kishore Bharati Krirangan is a multi-purpose stadium in Kolkata, West Bengal, used mainly for football matches. The capacity of the stadium is 12,000, and the size of the sports complex is 13 acres.

    3.5 km · stadium in Kolkata, India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    IMPS College of Engineering and Technology

    IMPS College of Engineering and Technology is an engineering college located in Uttar Jadupur, Malda, West Bengal, India. The college was established in 2003, Run by the IMPS Educational Trust.

    2.4 km · college in West Bengal · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Benubana Chhaya

    Benubana Chhaya is a categorized water park in Kolkata located at EM Bypass, Baishnabghata Patuli Township. It has been developed by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority in 2013 for beatification of Kolkata.

    1.7 km · park in Baishnabghata Patuli Township, India · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Netaji Subhash Engineering College

    Netaji Subhash Engineering College or NSEC is a graduate and undergraduate engineering college of eastern India located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Established in 1998, it is situated at Techno City, Panchpota, Garia in the southern part of Kolkata.

    2.4 km · a engineering college in Kolkata, West Bengal, India · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Netaji Nagar College (Evening)

    Netaji Nagar College, established in 1967, is an undergraduate college in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is affiliated with the University of Calcutta.

    2.3 km · college in West Bengal, India · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences

    Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, also known as Rabindranath Tagore Hospital, in Mukundapur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, is a multispeciality, tertiary care unit of Narayana Health group. It is a 681-bedded NABH accredited multi-super-speciality quaternary care hospital established in the year 2000.

    3.2 km · building in India · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Patuli floating market

    Patuli floating market is an artificial floating market in Patuli, Kolkata, India, developed by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. Developed at a cost of ₹10 Crores, beside the canal adjacent to the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, the market was inaugurated in January 2018, and was an instant success.

    900 m · artificial shopping mall on water in Patuli, Kolkata, India · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Ramakrishna Stadium

    Ramakrishna Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Narendrapur, South 24 Parganas district. The ground is mainly used for organizing matches of football, cricket, and other sports.

    3.4 km · multi-purpose stadium in Narendrapur, India · 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Bhukailash Rajbari
  2. 02
    BNR House

    Once the residence of Indologist Sir William Jones, now the official residence of the General Manager (GM) of South Eastern Railway (SER).

  3. 03
    Choto Rasbari
  4. 04
    India Government Mint
  5. 05
    Tollywood

    From an early beginning in the silent era in 1919 to the talking era in the 1930s to the golden days of 1950s to 1970s has been a chequered history.

  6. 06
    Indenture Memorial

    A memorial dedicated to the 1.6 million Indian workers who were transported to labour in European colonies.

From Wikivoyage: Garia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Fame - South City (Watch films).

  1. 01
    Royal Calcutta Golf Club

    The oldest golf club in India, established in 1829.

  2. 02
    Tollygunge Club
  3. 03
    Durga Puja of Sabarna Roy Choudhury's

    Sabarna Roy Chowdhury's jagirdari family has been celebrating Durga Puja since 1610 in their ancestral home at Barisha.

  4. 04
    Benuban Chhaya
  5. 05
    Jodhpur Park
  6. 06
    Patuli Lake

    A long waterbody along EM Bypass, attracting hundreds on weekends.

From Wikivoyage: Garia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Garia

Airports
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 22 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 256 km
Stations
Baghajatin railway station, 2.5 km · Masterda Surya Sen metro station, 3.9 km · New Garia railway station, 1.1 km · Garia railway station, 900 m · Kavi Subhash metro station, 1 km
  • Bhubaneswar → Garia
    361 km · quickest by air, 4h 30m · ₹5,580–8,560
  • Siliguri → Garia
    472 km · quickest by air, 4h 50m · ₹6,200–9,490
  • Guwahati → Garia
    534 km · quickest by air, 5h 24m · ₹6,710–10,260
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Garia

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inPoint to point autorickshaws are available for slightly longer routes.
  • Get inCycle rickshaws are available everywhere.
  • Get inCycle rickshaws are available at all stations for local travel.

From Wikivoyage: Kolkata/Southern Suburbs, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

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

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  3. 03
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  4. 04
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

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  5. 05
    ViswemaIN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

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

Around it

Next door to Garia

Garia is 5 km from Rajpur Sonarpur, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.