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Thakurpukur is a
Thakurpukur Bazar is one of the biggest and most versatile markets in South Kolkata. Starting from vegetables, meat, fish, groceries stores upto clothing, electronics, gadgets all kind of necessary commodities are available here.
Shopping complexes like Reliance Trends and Reliance Digital and many renowned motorbike showrooms are situated in Thakurpukur.
One of the oldest cancer treatment centre of
region
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of South West Kolkata
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in Behala
Behala is a locality of South West Kolkata, in the Indian state of West Bengal. Behala is a part of Kolkata Municipal Corporation area. It is broadly spread across Ward Nos. 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130 ...
area of the Indian state
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History
Pre-indepen ...
of West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fou ...
. It is majorly a residential region. It has been rapidly developed in the last 20 years and what was a jungle before is now an urban agglomeration in Kolkata's South. Thakurpukur was also under the Barisha area of Sabarna Roy Choudhury
Sabarna Roy Choudhury was a Zamindar family of Mughal Bengal. They controlled significant swathes of territory, including what would later become Kolkata, prior to the sale of zamindari rights in 1698 to the East India Company.
Zamindari
E ...
's zamindari era.
Administration
Police district
Thakurpukur police station is part of the South West division(Behala Division) ofKolkata Police
The Kolkata Police Force (KPF) is one of the two presidency police forces of the Indian state of West Bengal. Kolkata Police has the task of policing the metropolitan area (apart from Bidhannagar and New Town, which are served by the Bidhannaga ...
. It is located at 123/117, Diamond Harbour Road, Kolkata-700063.
Behala Women police station, located at the same address as above, covers all police districts under the jurisdiction of the South West division i.e. Sarsuna, Taratala, Behala, Parnasree, Thakurpukur, and Haridevpur.
Jadavpur, ''Thakurpukur'', Behala, Purba Jadavpur, Tiljala, Regent Park, Metiabruz, Nadial, and Kasba police stations were transferred from South 24 Parganas to Kolkata in 2011. Except for Metiabruz, all the police stations were split into two. The new police stations are Parnasree, Haridevpur, Garfa, Patuli, Survey Park, Pragati Maidan, Bansdroni and Rajabagan.
Education
Vivekananda College was established at Barisha in 1950 as ''Barisha College'', renamed Vivekananda College in 1956 and shifted to Thakurpukur in 1959. Affiliated with theUniversity of Calcutta
The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a public collegiate state university in India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Considered one of best state research university all over India every year, ...
, it offers honours courses in Bengali, English, Sanskrit, history, philosophy, political science, journalism & mass communications, physics, chemistry, mathematics, economics, botany, zoology, computer science, biochemistry, and environmental science.
Other Educational Institutions nearby are
# Vivekananda College for Women
# El Bethel School
# M.P.Birla School
# Sarsuna College
# Sarsuna Law College
# National Gems School
# Barisha Purba Para High school
# Barisha Vivekananda Boys High School
# Barisha Vivekananda Girls High School
# Gournagar High School
Some popular coaching centers and career counselling services nearby are
# Pathfinder
# Allen Coaching
# Naboday Coaching
# Mashtishkam
# Alankrita Careers and Alankrita Tutorials
# I leap
# RICE
# ICA
and many more.
Market
Thakurpukur Bazar is one of the biggest and most versatile markets in South Kolkata. Starting from vegetables, meat, fish, groceries stores upto clothing, electronics, gadgets all kind of necessary commodities are available here.
Shopping complexes like Reliance Trends and Reliance Digital and many renowned motorbike showrooms are situated in Thakurpukur.
Hospitals and Treatment Centres
One of the oldest cancer treatment centre 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 ...
is situated here as Saroj Gupta Cancer Centre and Research Institute, Which is located off the Mahatma Gandhi Road. The hospital is locally known as Thakurpukur Cancer Hospital. This hospital is one of the important landmark of this area.
Besides Cancer Hospital, many other hospitals and treatment centres are available here like D.M Hospital, Apollo Clinic, Swadesh Basu Hospital, BMRI Hospital, Kasturi Medical center, Advanced Neuropsychiatry Institute, Humanity Hospital etc.
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