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Jawpur

Jawpur is a locality in South Dumdum of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Jawpur
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The place

Jawpur is a locality in South Dumdum of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Jawpur

Airports
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 4 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 243 km
Stations
Baranagar Road railway station, 3.3 km · Jai Hind metro station, 3.2 km · Dum Dum Cantt railway station, 600 m · Belgharia railway station, 3 km · Dum Dum Cantonment metro station, 500 m
  • Bhubaneswar → Jawpur
    379 km · quickest by air, 4h 27m · ₹5,560–8,540
  • Siliguri → Jawpur
    466 km · quickest by air, 4h 47m · ₹6,180–9,470
  • Guwahati → Jawpur
    518 km · quickest by air, 5h 21m · ₹6,690–10,240
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Jawpur

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBy ferry: There is a ferry terminal ("ghat") opposite the station that can get you to the opposite side of the river.
  • Get inBesides, there are various ferry options from Howrah, Serampore and Uttarpara.
  • Get aroundThere are four types of rickshaws in Kolkata: human-pulled rickshaws, cycle rickshaws, auto-rickshaws and electric rickshaws.
  • Get aroundRickshaws pulled by men are a common sight in Kolkata and they are mainly found in some old localities of Kolkata.
  • Get aroundThese rickshaws usually operate over short distances and mainly run on narrow lanes and they are not allowed to ply over main roads.

From Wikivoyage: Kolkata, 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

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  2. 02
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  3. 03
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  4. 04
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  5. 05
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Around it

Next door to Jawpur

Jawpur is 5 km from Kāmārhāti, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.