- Source: Garia
Garia is a neighbourhood of South Kolkata in the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is bordered by the neighbourhoods of Jadavpur in the north, Bansdroni/Tollygunge in the north-west, Santoshpur/Mukundapur in the north-east and Narendrapur/Rajpur Sonarpur in the south. It is on the banks of Adi Ganga.
Geographic location
The junction of Raja S.C.Mullick Road, N.S.C. Bose Road and Garia Main Road adjacent to Kanungo Park is known as "Garia More".
Shopping
Garia is one of the major shopping areas of Kolkata. Notable shopping malls and department stores include:
Metropolis Mall, Hiland Park, EM Bypass, Chak Garia
Smart Bazaar, Orbit Mall, Garia
Spencer's, Garia Station Road
Spencer's Express, Baishnabghata Patuli Township
Spencer's Express, Tolly Heights, Naktala
Proyozonio
Bizarre Bazar
Sonar Bangla Shopping Complex
Pooja Plaza (Near Garia Bazaar)
Parnashree Market (Near Garia Main Road)
New Raghunath Market
Brand Factory (Near Mahamayatala, Garia)
Bazaar Kolkata (Mahamayatala, Garia)
Medical facilities
Several medical institutes are found within Garia.
The Apollo Clinic
Bengal Rural Welfare Service (BRWS) Hospital
Banchbo Healing Touch
Peerless Hospital (Panchasayar)
Remedy Hospital (Kalitala)
Lifeline Hospital (Pratapgarh)
Namita Biswas Memorial Eye Hospital (Garia Station)
Sevangan Nursing Home
Smilz Dental Treatment Facility (Garia Park)
Remedy Diagnostic Center
Medich Health Clinic and Diagnostic Centre
Friends Diagnostic Private Limited
Mother Teresa Memorial TB Hospital and Research Centre
Neotia Mediplus Super Specialty Clinic (part of Park Hospitals), 168 Garia Main Road, Kolkata 700084 (Opp. 228 bus stand)
Education
Garia is home to several academic, research and professional institutions. Major colleges, schools and research institutions located here include:
Netaji Subhash Engineering College
Indian Centre for Space Physics, Garia Station Road
Dinabandhu Andrews College-affiliated to Calcutta University.
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Seacom Marine College
National Institute of Hotel Management, Kolkata
Sammilani Mahavidyalaya
K.K. Das College
Future Institute of Engineering and Management
Swami Vivekananda Institute of Science and Technology
Neotia Academy Of Nursing, Chak Garia
Indus Valley World School
Welland Gouldsmith School
Techno India Group Public School
Techno Model School
Miranda High School
B.D. Memorial Institute-Mahamayatala
Garia Baroda Prasad High School
Garia Harimati Devi U. Balika School
Garia Vidyabhavana South School
Kids World School
Ideal commercial College
Garia Madrasah Badrul Uloom Quraniya - Islamic Educational Institute
Balia Nafar Chandra Balika Vidyalaya
Tentulberia Anukul Chandra High School
In popular culture
In early 1953, the principal photography of Satyajit Ray's debut film Pather Panchali was done at Boral, which was then a small village on the outskirts of Kolkata and is now a locality of Garia. A decade later, Ray again shot a scene of Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne in the dense bamboo groves near a pond in Garia.
Notable people
Ashapurna Devi, novelist and poet
Anurag Basu, film director
Kaushik Ganguly, film director
Churni Ganguly, actress
Locket Chatterjee, actress
Rashid Khan, classical singer
Srijato, poet
Kabir Suman, poet, singer, musician and socio-political activist
Sayak Chakraborty, television actor
See also
New Garia
Kolkata Metro Railway Routes (North South Corridor)
Kolkata Suburban Railway
Eastern Metropolitan Bypass
References
External links
Kolkata/Southern fringes travel guide from Wikivoyage
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