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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
Pailan · Salil Kumar Mukherjee
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Gurusaday 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
  2. 02
    Vivekananda 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
  3. 03
    Employees 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

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 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 → Pailan
    824 km · quickest by air, 11h 33m · ₹10,720–15,990
  • Siliguri → Pailan
    805 km · quickest by air, 11h 37m · ₹9,880–14,660
  • Guwahati → Pailan
    1132 km · quickest by air, 12h 32m · ₹12,340–18,440
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

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.

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

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    90 km
  2. 02
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    470 km
  3. 03
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    486 km
  4. 04
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    676 km
  5. 05
    ViswemaIN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    688 km

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

Around it

Next door to Pailan

Pailan is 10 km from Maheshtala, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.