Garia

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title: "Garia" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["neighbourhoods-in-kolkata", "red-light-districts-in-india"] description: "Neighbourhood of Kolkata, India" topic_path: "geography/india" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garia" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Neighbourhood of Kolkata, India ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]

Field	Value
	name
native_name
settlement_type	Neighbourhood in Kolkata (Calcutta)
	total_type
motto
image_skyline	Garia Station Road.jpg
image_caption	Garia station Rd
pushpin_map	India Kolkata
pushpin_label_position	right
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Kolkata
coordinates
	subdivision_type1
subdivision_name1
subdivision_type2	State
subdivision_name2	West Bengal
subdivision_type3	City
subdivision_name3	Kolkata
subdivision_type4	District
subdivision_name4	South 24 Parganas
subdivision_type5	Metro Station
subdivision_name5
	seat_type
seat
parts_type	KMC wards
parts_style
parts	100, 101, 109, 110, 111
p2
leader_title1
established_title
established_date
unit_pref	Imperial
area_total_km2
area_land_km2
area_water_percent
elevation_footnotes
elevation_min_m
population_density_km2
	timezone
utc_offset	+5:30
utc_offset_DST
postal_code_type	PIN
postal_code	700084, 700047, 700094, 700152
area_code	+91 33
blank1_name_sec1	Lok Sabha constituency
blank1_info_sec1	Jadavpur
blank2_name_sec1	Vidhan Sabha constituency
blank2_info_sec1	Jadavpur and Sonarpur Uttar
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Geographic location

The junction of Raja S.C.Mullick Road, N.S.C. Bose Road and Garia Main Road adjacent to Kanungo Park is known as "Garia More". | North = Jadavpur | Northeast = Survey Park, Ajoynagar, Santoshpur | West = Purba Putiary | Northwest = Tollygunge, Regent Park | Center = Garia | South = Narendrapur, Sonarpur | Southwest = Rajpur | Southeast = Ganga Joara | East = Mukundapur

Shopping

Garia is one of the major shopping areas of Kolkata. Notable shopping malls and department stores include:

• Metropolis Mall, Hiland Park, EM Bypass, Chak Garia
• Smart Bazaar, Orbit Mall, Garia
• Spencer's, Garia Station Road
• Spencer's Express, Baishnabghata Patuli Township
• Spencer's Express, Tolly Heights, Naktala
• Proyozonio
• Bizarre Bazar
• Sonar Bangla Shopping Complex
• Pooja Plaza (Near Garia Bazaar)
• Parnashree Market (Near Garia Main Road)
• New Raghunath Market
• Brand Factory (Near Mahamayatala, Garia)
• Bazaar Kolkata (Mahamayatala, Garia)

Medical facilities

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Peerlesshospital.jpg" caption="Peerless Hospital]]Several medical institutes are found within Garia."] ::

• The Apollo Clinic
• Bengal Rural Welfare Service (BRWS) Hospital
• Banchbo Healing Touch
• Peerless Hospital (Panchasayar)
• Remedy Hospital (Kalitala)
• Lifeline Hospital (Pratapgarh)
• Namita Biswas Memorial Eye Hospital (Garia Station)
• Sevangan Nursing Home
• Smilz Dental Treatment Facility (Garia Park)
• Remedy Diagnostic Center
• Medich Health Clinic and Diagnostic Centre
• Friends Diagnostic Private Limited
• Mother Teresa Memorial TB Hospital and Research Centre
• Neotia Mediplus Super Specialty Clinic (part of Park Hospitals), 168 Garia Main Road, Kolkata 700084 (Opp. 228 bus stand)

Education

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/NSEC_College.JPG" caption="Netaji Subhash Engineering College"] ::

Garia is home to several academic, research and professional institutions. Major colleges, schools and research institutions located here include:

• Netaji Subhash Engineering College
• Indian Centre for Space Physics, Garia Station Road
• Dinabandhu Andrews College-affiliated to Calcutta University.
• Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute
• Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
• Seacom Marine College
• National Institute of Hotel Management, Kolkata
• Sammilani Mahavidyalaya
• K.K. Das College
• Future Institute of Engineering and Management
• Swami Vivekananda Institute of Science and Technology
• Neotia Academy Of Nursing, Chak Garia
• Indus Valley World School
• Welland Gouldsmith School
• Techno India Group Public School
• Techno Model School
• Miranda High School
• B.D. Memorial Institute-Mahamayatala
• Garia Baroda Prasad High School
• Garia Harimati Devi U. Balika School
• Garia Vidyabhavana South School
• Kids World School
• Ideal commercial College
• Garia Madrasah Badrul Uloom Quraniya - Islamic Educational Institute
• Balia Nafar Chandra Balika Vidyalaya
• Tentulberia Anukul Chandra High School

In popular culture

In early 1953, the principal photography of Satyajit Ray's debut film Pather Panchali was done at Boral, which was then a small village on the outskirts of Kolkata and is now a locality of Garia. A decade later, Ray again shot a scene of Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne in the dense bamboo groves near a pond in Garia.

Notable Resident

• Ashapurna Devi, novelist and poet
• Anurag Basu, film director
• Kaushik Ganguly, film director
• Churni Ganguly, actress
• Locket Chatterjee, actress
• Sayak Chakraborty, television actor
• Pabitra Sarkar, Former Vice chancellor, Writer and Critics

Transport

Garia has two bus terminals named Garia 6 no. Nagarik Bus Terminus and Garia 5 no. Bus Terminus. A variety of AC & Non-AC Buses depart from this terminus.

Bus

WBTC

• AC-6 (Garia 6 no Bus stand - Howrah Stn)
• AC-37 (Garia 6 no Bus stand - Barasat)
• AC-37A (Garia 6 no Bus stand - Airport)
• AC-50A (Garia 6 no Bus stand - Rajchandrapur)
• AC-5 (Garia 5 no Bus stand - Howrah Stn)
• S-7 (Garia 6 no Bus stand - Howrah Stn)
• S-21 (Garia 6 no Bus stand - Baghbazar)
• S-14 (Garia 6 no Bus stand - Karunamoyee)
• AC-24 (Patuli - Howrah Stn)
• AC-24A (Kamalgazi - Howrah Stn)
• S-9C (Kamalgazi - Ecospace)
• S-24 (Kamalgazi - Howrah Stn)
• AC-14 (Baruipur - Karunamoyee)

References

References

2. "Map of Garia". Maps of India.
3. "Shopping areas in Kolkata".
4. link. (2011-07-13)
5. "Big Bazaar-Garia".
6. [http://in.local.yahoo.com/kolkata/spencers-11003dce4ea444d9b858f2dd8fed4a85/ Spencers-Garia]
7. [http://in.local.yahoo.com/kolkata/spencers-express-eb40e654c6041954fbffd78e062f7779/ Spencers-Patuli]
8. "Spencer's Express-Naktala".
9. "Proyozonio-Garia".
10. [http://in.local.yahoo.com/kolkata/bizarre-bazar-d6a5940e0e74c4a3078d35b6e1413892/ Bizarre Bazar-Garia]
11. "Sonar Bangla Shopping Complex".
12. "The Apollo Clinic Clinics".
13. [http://www.banchbo.org.in Banchbo Healing Touch Official Website]
14. [http://smilz.net/ SMiLZ Dental Treatment Facility]
15. [https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/jsp/KMCHealthChestClinics.jsp KMC Chest Clinics]
16. [http://csp.res.in/ Indian Centre for Space Physics]
17. "Affiliated colleges of Calcutta University".
18. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110418195705/http://cssscal.org/contact_us.html Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta address]
19. "Seacom Marine College address".
20. "Sammilani Mahavidyalaya college address".
21. "K.K. Das college address".
22. "List of Schools of Nursing".
23. [http://www.ivws.org/ Indus Valley World School]
24. "ISC schools in Kolkata".
25. "Techno India Group Public School Branches".
26. "Techno India Model School Branches".
27. [http://www.calcuttaweb.com/inst/schools.shtml Calcuttaweb-Schools] {{webarchive. link. (2007-09-23)
28. "B.D. Memorial School locations".
29. [http://questionpaper.in/Schools/School.aspx?schoolNumber=4673 Garia Vidyabhavana South]
30. (6 April 2013). "Apu Doesn't Live Here Anymore". Indian Express.

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