Santoshpur is a locality of

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. It is loosely bounded by Garfa to the north, the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass to the east,

Jadavpur Jadavpur is a neighbourhood of Kolkata, South Kolkata in Kolkata district in West Bengal, India. Jadavpur is one of the important junctions in South Kolkata. Jadavpur University and a number of research institutes of national and international ...

to the west and Baghajatin to the south.

History of Santoshpur area

From the 1950s

This area was initially part of

. The area was mainly shallow marshy lands and agricultural fields even as late as the seventies. Some houses were built in the fifties and sixties mostly on the eastern side of the Jadavpur railway station. Residents are mostly East Bengali refugees.

Transport

Jyotirindra Nath Nandi metro station and Satyajit Ray metro station, under construction on the Kavi Subhas-Biman Bandar route ( Kolkata Metro Orange Line), would serve Santoshpur, Ajoy Nagar, Survey Park areas lying close to the E.M. Bypass section of the city. PRIVATE BUS ROUTES: *1A MUKUNDAPUR - RAMNAGAR *1B GARIA STATION -RAMNAGAR *SD16 MUKUNDAPUR - SIRAKOLE *106 SANTOSHPUR BBD BAG MINI WBTC BUS ROUTES: *AC9 JADAVPUR - KARUNAMOYEE *AC9B JADAVPUR - ECOSPACE- SECTOR V *S9 JADAVPUR - KARUNAMOYEE *D27 JADAVPUR - NAIHATI *D27A JADAVPUR - HABRA - ASHOKNAGAR *AC43 GOLFGREEN -AIRPORT *S5C NAYABAD - HOWRAH *S5C/N NAYABAD - NABANNA

References

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