Pailan
Pailan is a village and a gram panchayat of the Bishnupur I CD block in the Alipore Sadar subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Pailan is a village and a gram panchayat of the Bishnupur I CD block in the Alipore Sadar subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Worth seeing in and around Pailan
3 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.
- 01Gurusaday Museum
The Gurusaday Museum is a folk arts and crafts museum located in Kolkata, India.
2.9 km · Folk arts and crafts museum in Kolkata, India · Wikipedia - 02Vivekananda College, Thakurpukur
Vivekananda College is a state government-aided public college, affiliated to the University of Calcutta, located in southwest Kolkata, close to the Thakurpukur metro station. The college offers both post-graduate and under-graduate courses in a number of subjects of science, arts and commerce.
3.9 km · College of West Bengal · Wikipedia - 03Employees State Insurance Corporation Medical College
Employees State Insurance-Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research & Employees State Insurance Corporation Medical College and Hospital, Joka, is a NMC recognised medical college established in 2013 under the aegis of the ESI Corporation, an autonomous body, controlled by Government of India. This college received permission for 100 seats for this session from the National Medical Commission and is affiliated to the West Bengal University of Health Sciences.
2.7 km · postgraduate medical college in Kolkata, India · Wikipedia
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Getting to Pailan
- Airports
- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 29 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 265 km
- Stations
- Thakurpukur metro station, 3.9 km · Joka metro station, 2.6 km
- Bhubaneswar → Pailan824 km · quickest by air, 11h 33m · ₹10,720–15,990
- Siliguri → Pailan805 km · quickest by air, 11h 37m · ₹9,880–14,660
- Guwahati → Pailan1132 km · quickest by air, 12h 32m · ₹12,340–18,440
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No local-transport research exists yet for Pailan
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 Pailan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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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Next door to Pailan
Pailan is 10 km from Maheshtala, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Jokaneighbourhood in Kolkata3.4 km
- Sarmaster Chakvillage in West Bengal, India2.6 km
- Uttar Kazirhatvillage in West Bengal, India3.8 km
- Kaluacensus town in West Bengal2.8 km
- Thakurpukurneighbourhood in Kolkata in West Bengal, India3.9 km
- Hanspukuriacensus town in West Bengal2.7 km