Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road (earlier known as Lower Circular Road) and its continuation northwards called Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road (earlier known as Upper Circular Road), are together the longest and the most important north-south thoroughfare in

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History

The road came upon the stretch that formed the

Maratha Ditch The Maratha Ditch was a three-mile-long deep entrenchment constructed by the English East India Company around Fort William in Calcutta. It was built to protect the surrounding villages and forts from the Maratha Bargi raiders. The ditch marke ...

that was dug in 1742 to protect the City from the Bargi invasions. In 1799 the ditch was filled up and the current outline of the road built. Until the 1870s, the Circular Road was considered the de facto eastern boundary of the City of Calcutta as the suburbs to its east, i.e. Manicktala, Rajabazar, Narikeldanga, Ultadanga, and Beliaghata were still semi-urban semi-rural villages.

Legacy

Named after the renowned chemist Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy and the renowned physicist and botanist Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose.

Stretch and description

APC Road and AJC Bose Road taken together is the longest road in Kolkata. APC Road emerges from the

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Five-Point Crossing (''Paanch Mathar More''). It then passes through Khanna Crossing, Beadon Street Crossing,

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Crossing, Rajabazar Crossing, M. G. Road Crossing, Vidyapati Flyover and ends at Sealdah Station. AJC Bose Rd flyover

From Sealdah Station, it is known as AJC Bose Road, which passes through Lenin Sarani Crossing ( Moulali Crossing), S. N. Banerjee Road Crossing, Ripon Street Crossing, Elliot Road Crossing, Park Street Crossing (Mullick Bazar), Shakespeare Sarani Crossing, Circus Avenue Crossing (Beck Bagan), Ballygunge Circular Road Crossing, Lansdowne Crossing (Minto Park),

Camac Street Abanindranath Thakur Sarani (formerly and popularly known as Camac Street) is a one-way road in Kolkata, India. Running in the Kolkata CBD, it connects Allen Park at Park Street to Nizam Palace at Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road. The roa ...

Crossing, Lee Road Crossing,

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Crossing or Exide Crossing, Cathedral Road Crossing ( Nandan and Rabindra Sadan on one side), Victoria Memorial-Hospital Road/Debendra Lal Khan Road Crossing,

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Road Crossing, Kolkata Race Course on one side and finishes its journey at Strand Road-

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Crossing. From the Point of Circus Avenue Crossing till the Victoria Memorial, the road runs below the "AJC Bose Road Flyover", which is the 2nd longest flyover and busiest flyover in the city at 2.9 km long, connecting Park Circus to Victoria Memorial on one branch, and serving as the direct flyover connection onto Parama Island Flyover on the other branch. After both ramps of the flyover connecting it with Parama Island Flyover were completed in early 2019, the flyover forms a seamless, no-signal traffic corridor known as Maa flyover from PG Hospital to EM Bypass. Western Ramp - AJC Bose Flyover - PTS - Kolkata 2016-06-23 5128

Western Ramp - AJC Bose Flyover - PTS - Kolkata 2016-06-23 5128

Landmarks

, Five-Point Crossing * Khanna Cinema * Bangiya Sahitya Parishad * Central Blood Bank * Rammohan Library *

Bose Institute Bose Institute (or Basu Bigyan Mandir) is a premier public research institute of India for biological sciences and also one of its oldest. The Bose Institute Kolkata is a Tier 1 Natural Science Research Institute in India, sharing the podium wit ...

* Calcuta Deaf School *

Rajabazar Science College The University College of Science, Technology and Agriculture (formerly known as Rajabazar Science College) are two of five main campuses of the University of Calcutta (CU). The college served as the cradle of Indian sciences, where Raman won t ...

* Dr. M N Chatterjee Eye Hospital & Ayurvedic College and Hospital * Victoria Institution * Sealdah ESI Hospital * Vidyapati Flyover * Sealdah Station * Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital * Dr. R. Ahmed Dental College and Hospital *

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's Shishu Bhavan * St James' School * Pratt Memorial school- one of the oldest schools of Kolkata * Mother House,

Missionaries of Charity The Missionaries of Charity () is a Catholic centralised religious institute of consecrated life of Pontifical Right for women established in 1950 by Mother Teresa, now known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. , it consisted o ...

* Lower Circular Road cemetery * Institute of Neurosciences Kolkata * Tulip Inn Hotel * La Martiniere School for boys and girls * Minto Park (Shaheed Bhagat Singh Udyan) * Hotel Hindustan International * St Joseph's Home * Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose College * Nehru Children's Museum * The Calcutta Club * Nandan * Rabindra Sadan * Kolkata Race Course * SSKM Hospital * Dr. B. C. Roy Post Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences * The Frank Anthony Public School, Kolkata

Gallery

File:Park St - AJC Bose Rd Xing 'INK'.jpg, Institute of Neurosciences, Kolkata at the crossing of Park Street and AJC Bose Road File:Jora Girija .jpg, Jora Girja ( St. James' Church) on AJC Bose Road File:Shaheed Bhagat Singh Udyan.jpg, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Udyan (Minto Park) on AJC Bose Road File:AJC Bose Road 'Diamond Prestige' (1).jpg, Diamond Prestige, an office block on AJC Bose Road, houses a 'Jaguar' showroom File:Ideal Center.jpg, Ideal Center on AJC Bose Road, houses an 'Audi' showroom File:Police Training School - 247 AJC Bose Road - Kolkata 2015-02-07 2164.JPG, Kolkata Police Training School (PTS) on AJC Bose Road

References

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