Bally is a neighbourhood in

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in the

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. Bally is under the jurisdiction of Bally Police Station of

Howrah City Police Howrah City Police (Bengali: হাওড়া শহর পুলিশ) established in 2011, is a city police force with primary responsibilities in law enforcement and investigation in Howrah city and some of its adjacent areas in Howrah di ...

. It is a part of the area covered by

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(KMDA).Merge Bally, Howrah civic bodies: Mamata Banerjee
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Geography

Bally is located at and also the northernmost part of

city. It has an average elevation of 15 metres (49

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). It is more elevated in the west than the east (where flows the Hoogly river), thus leading to a problem of water logging. Bally is separated from

Uttarpara, Hooghly Uttarpara or Uttarpara Kotrung is a city and a municipality of Hooghly district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). Uttarpara ...

, by Bally Canal (Bally Khal) at its north. A Bridge was constructed over Bally Canal in 1846 to join the two localities.

Transport

An important transportation hub of Kolkata, Bally is connected to Dakshineswar, Kolkata via

Vivekananda Setu Vivekananda Setu (also called Willingdon Bridge and Bally Bridge) is a bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. It links the city of Howrah, at Bally, to Kolkata, at Dakshineswar. Completed in 1931, it is a multispan truss bridge ...

and Nivedita Setu. State Highway 6/

Grand Trunk Road Grand Trunk Road (formerly known as Uttarapath, Sadak-e-Azam, Shah Rah-e-Azam, Badshahi Sadak, and Long Walk) is one of Asia's oldest and longest major roads. For at least 2,500 years it has linked Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent. It r ...

and

Belghoria Expressway Belghoria Expressway is a long grade separated bypass expressway in the northern metropolitan region of Kolkata, West Bengal. It bypasses the core city area and links the terminal junction points of NH 16 and NH 19 at Rajchandrapur near ...

also pass through Bally. From here, people can avail a number of buses to go to

Kolkata Kolkata, also known as Calcutta ( its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary ...

(via

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) and Hooghly (via National Highway 19). Bally also has three railway stations of

Kolkata Suburban Railway The Kolkata Suburban Railway (colloquially called Kolkata local trains or simply locals) is a suburban rail, suburban and regional rail system serving the Kolkata metropolitan area and its surroundings in West Bengal, India. Its network has 45 ...

. They are Bally railway station (on Howrah-Bardhaman main line and Howrah-Bardhaman chord line), Bally Ghat railway station and Bally Halt railway station (on Sealdah-Dankuni line). Nearest Airport of Bally is

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport () is an international airport serving the city of Kolkata and the Kolkata metropolitan area, the capital metropolis of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the primary aviation hub for eas ...

in Dumdum, Kolkata.

References

{{Howrah topics Neighbourhoods in Howrah Neighbourhoods in Kolkata Kolkata Metropolitan Area

Geography

Transport

See also

References