Phoolbagan metro station (or LIC Phoolbagan metro station for sponsorship reasons) is a station of the

Kolkata Metro The Kolkata Metro is a rapid transit system serving the city of Kolkata in West Bengal, India. , it has two operational lines, a line from Dakshineswar to Kavi Subhash and a line from Salt Lake Sector V to Sealdah, for a total of . Four o ...

Phoolbagan Phoolbagan is a neighbourhood in North Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Subhas Sarovar is one of the famous tourist attraction of Kolkata present in the locality of Phoolbagan. Geography Police district Phoolbagan ...

, a north neighbourhood of

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

, India. The underground station is at the Phoolbagan crossing on the Narkeldanga Main Road. It is near to the

Gurudas College Gurudas College, established in 1956, is an undergraduate college in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is affiliated with the University of Calcutta. The name commemorates the legacy of Sir Gurudas Banerjee, the first Indian vice-chancellor of ...

and Dr. Shyamaprasad Mukherjee Institution. The station opened on 4 October 2020 and commercial services started the next day.

History

Construction

The Station

Structure

This is the first underground station in this line and has island platforms.

Layout

Connections

Rail

is 500m away from the metro station.

Air

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport is an international airport located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, serving the Kolkata Metropolitan Area and is the aviation hub for eastern and northeastern India. It is located approximatel ...

is via

VIP Road VIP Road (officially Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue) is a major thoroughfare connecting the city of Kolkata with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, Dumdum/Kolkata Airport. Located in the North-Eastern outskirts of the city, it was buil ...

& C.I.T Road.

References

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