Salt Lake City (Bidhan Nagar), Kolkata

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Bidhan Nagar, popularly known as Salt Lake City is a district in Kolkata, India. It is a satellite township and since it has been built recently, it is quite well - planned. It was constructed to accommodate the ever increasing population of the city. It should not be confused with its namesake city in USA. It has become an IT hub and considered to be one of Kolkata’s nicer localities.

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Facilities

Salt Lake is a planned area and hence offers many more facilities as compared to its older counterparts. The roads are clean and well maintained. Sanitation facilities are good. Thie area has its own swimming pool, the largest Sports Stadium in India, an amusement park, a 5 star hotel (The Hyatt Regency), modern shopping malls, a sports training center (called the Netaji Subhas Sports Institute) and a number of schools. The environment is relatively pollution free and one can see tree clad boulevards all along. The original plans included setting up administrative offices for Greater Kolkata but it was later dropped.

There are police stations, post offices, electricity offices etc. Due to poor street lighting maintenance petty thefts and eve teasing are persistent problems.

Salt Lake city houses numerous professional, academic and research institutions. Some of them are :

  • The Variable Energy Cyclotron and the Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences for research
  • The Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • The Bidhannagar College
  • College of Leather Technology
  • The Technical Teacher's Training Institute
  • West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences
  • National Institute of Fashion Technology
  • Calcutta campus of IIT Kharagpur
  • The Administrative Training Institute and Jadavpur University's second campus
  • National Institute of Homeopathy
  • Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information Technology
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Development

The idea of a new township was first introduced by Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, the second Chief Minister of West Bengal and hence it was named Bidhan Nagar in his honor. Salt Lake city was founded on 16th April, 1962. The area was to be developed in “sectors”. Sector – I was completed in 1965 an Sector – II and Sector – 3 were ready by 1969. Sectors IV and V were later developed as Industrial sectors mainly catering to the IT industry. The initial land area was about 12.52 sq. km and now it as nearly doubled to include Sukantanagar, Duttabad, Mahishbathan and Nayapatti.

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