Beniapukur Explained

Beniapukur
Settlement Type:Neighbourhood in Kolkata (Calcutta)
Pushpin Map:India Kolkata
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Kolkata
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name1:West Bengal
Subdivision Type2:City
Subdivision Type3:District
Subdivision Name3:Kolkata
Subdivision Type4:Nearest Metro Station
Subdivision Name4:Rabindra Sadan, Maidan, Park Street, Sealdah and Barun Sengupta(under construction)
Seat Type:Municipal Corporation
Seat:Kolkata Municipal Corporation
Parts Type:KMC wards
Parts:59, 60, 61
Unit Pref:Imperial
Population Total:For population see linked KMC ward page
Timezone:IST
Utc Offset:+5:30
Coordinates:22.5463°N 88.3695°W
Postal Code Type:PIN
Postal Code:700014
Area Code:+91 33
Blank1 Name Sec1:Lok Sabha constituency
Blank1 Info Sec1:Kolkata Dakshin
Blank2 Name Sec1:Vidhan Sabha constituency
Blank2 Info Sec1:Ballygunge

Beniapukur is a neighbourhood of Central Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is adjacent to Park Circus.

Etymology

The name of the neighbourhood is derived from two words, benia and pukur. Influential benias or merchants, particularly gandhabaniks, perfume and spice traders, settled here. They had dug a tank or pukur in the area.[1]

History

The East India Company obtained from the Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar, in 1717, the right to rent from 38 villages surrounding their settlement. Of these 5 lay across the Hooghly in what is now Howrah district. The remaining 33 villages were on the Calcutta side. After the fall of Siraj-ud-daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal, it purchased these villages in 1758 from Mir Jafar and reorganised them. These villages were known en-bloc as Dihi Panchannagram and Beniapukur was one of them.[2] [3] [1]

The Maratha Ditch was dug in 1742 and it was partly filled up in 1799 to create the Circular Road (now Acharya Jagaidsh Chandra Bose Road).[1]

Entally, Maniktala, Beliaghata, Ultadanga, Chitpur, Cossipore, parts of Beniapukur, Ballyganj, Watganj and Ekbalpur, and parts of Garden Reach and Tollygunj were added to Kolkata Municipal Corporation in 1888. Garden Reach was later taken out.[4]

In 1888, one of the 25 newly organized police section houses was located in Beniapukur, which is mentioned from the mid-eighteenth century, but the thana dates from the early 19th century.[1]

Geography

Police district

Beniapukur police station is part of the South East division of Kolkata Police. It is located at 48A, Gorachand Road, Kolkata-700014.[5]

Karaya Women police station, has jurisdiction over all police districts under the jurisdiction of the South East Division, i.e. Topsia, Beniapukur, Ballygunge, Gariahat, Lake, Karaya, Rabindra Sarobar and Tiljala.[5]

Education

Healthcare

Transport

Road

Many buses ply along Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road, Park Street, Suhrawardy Avenue, Darga Road and CIT Road in Beniapukur. Nonapukur tram depot-cum-workshop, where all manufacturing, modernisation and refurbishing of trams are done, is also situated here. Kolkata tram route no. 25 serves Beniapukur (via Nonapukur-AJC Bose Road-Park Street-Park Circus).[12]

Train

Park Circus railway station on Sealdah South Lines is the nearest railway station. Sealdah Station, one of the major railway-terminals of the city, is also located nearby.

Notes and References

  1. Nair, P. Thankappan, The Growth and Development of Old Calcutta, in Calcutta, the Living City, Vol. I, edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, pp. 18-19, Oxford University Press, .
  2. Web site: District Census Handbook Kolkata, Census of India 2011, Series 20, Part XII A . Pages 6-10: The History . Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal. 20 February 2018.
  3. Cotton, H.E.A., Calcutta Old and New, first published 1909/reprint 1980, pages 103-4 and 221, General Printers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
  4. Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, Wealth and Work in Calcutta, 1860-1921, in Calcutta, the Living City, Vol. I, p. 213.
  5. Web site: Kolkata Police . South East Division . KP . 21 March 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180314034534/http://www.kolkatapolice.gov.in/division.asp?ID=6&Division=N . 14 March 2018 . dead .
  6. Web site: Pratt Memorial School . PMC. 5 April 2018.
  7. Web site: Pratt Memorial School . ICBSE. 5 April 2018.
  8. Web site: Pratt Memorial School, Beniapukur. School Connects. 5 April 2018.
  9. Web site: The Frank Anthony Public School . FAPS . 5 April 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180407120028/http://calcutta.faps.edu.in/tiki-index.php?page=Affiliations . 7 April 2018 . dead .
  10. Web site: Welcome to Calcutta National Medical College . Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital. 5 April 2018.
  11. Web site: Health and Family Welfare Department. Health Statistics -> Hospital. Government of West Bengal. 6 April 2018. 14 September 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200914160418/https://www.wbhealth.gov.in/other_files/Hospitals.pdf. dead.
  12. Google maps