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Village in West Bengal, India

Jalanpur

Jalanpur is a small village on the bank of the Damodar River in Bankura district, West Bengal, India.

The place

Jalanpur is a small village on the bank of the Damodar River in Bankura district, West Bengal, India. This village is just on the other side of Waria Railway station and DTPS. It is under the Banjora Gram Panchayat. It is the last village of Mejia Community development Bloc. This village was once known as the Sanskrit Learning Station.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Jalanpur

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
    Durgapur Thermal Power Station

    Durgapur Thermal Power Station is located near Waria Railway Station, 6 km from Durgapur railway station in West Bengal.

    3.3 km · building in 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.

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Getting to Jalanpur

Airports
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 155 km
  • Kolkata → Jalanpur
    1319 km · quickest by air, 10h 12m · ₹13,080–19,830
  • Siliguri → Jalanpur
    1398 km · quickest by air, 10h · ₹13,310–20,210
  • Bhubaneswar → Jalanpur
    1087 km · quickest by air, 9h 25m · ₹11,290–17,100
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Jalanpur

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundMinibuses are generally too crowded and often go around circuitous routes.
  • Get aroundNearly all minibuses and SBSTC buses travel between the railway station and Prantika in Benachity through different routes.
  • Get aroundAuto rickshaws, like the taxis, charge arbitrary rates and operate from the railway station and certain fixed points.
  • Get aroundRickshaws are available for shorter trips.

From Wikivoyage: Durgapur, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Sagar Island and GangasagarIN

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    223 km
  2. 02
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    495 km
  3. 03
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    519 km
  4. 04
    GhandrukNP

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    642 km
  5. 05
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    649 km

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

Around it

Next door to Jalanpur

Jalanpur is 7 km from Durgapur, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Maliaravillage in Bankura district3.5 km