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Pānchla

Panchla is a census town in Panchla CD Block of Howrah Sadar subdivision in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Pānchla
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Panchla is a census town in Panchla CD Block of Howrah Sadar subdivision in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Pānchla

Airports
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 34 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 272 km
Stations
Nalpur railway station, 4.8 km · Bauria railway station, 4.7 km · Chengel railway station, 5.9 km
  • Bhubaneswar → Pānchla
    347 km · quickest by road, 6h 28m · ₹2,670–3,340
  • Siliguri → Pānchla
    465 km · quickest by air, 5h 26m · ₹6,560–9,900
  • Guwahati → Pānchla
    546 km · quickest by air, 6h · ₹7,080–10,670
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No local-transport research exists yet for Pānchla

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe ferry services to cross the Hooghly River from Kolkata to Howrah is very convenient to zip across both cities.
  • Get inOn the Kolkata side, the ferries link to such jetties at Bagbazar, Armenian, Fairlie, Chandpal Ghat and Babughat.
  • Get inBuy the ticket before you board the ferry and retain the ticket till after you have crossed to the other side and have shown it to the ticket checker near the exit gate or else you will be penalised!

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

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  3. 03
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  4. 04
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  5. 05
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    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

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Next door to Pānchla

Pānchla is 12 km from Maheshtala, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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