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'''Belgachia''' is a neighbourhood of [[North Kolkata]] in [[Kolkata district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thebloggermoon.home.blog/2019/07/22/the-mansions-of-kolkata-vol3-belgachia-rajbari/|title=THE MANSIONS OF KOLKATA VOL3- BELGACHIA RAJBARI|publisher=|date=22 July 2019|access-date=25 August 2025}}</ref>

==History==
The [[East India Company]] obtained from the [[Mughal emperors|Mughal emperor]] [[Farrukhsiyar]], in 1717, the right to rent from 38 villages surrounding their settlement. Of these 5 lay across the [[Hooghly River|Hooghly]] in what is now Howrah district. The remaining 33 villages were on the Calcutta side. After the fall of [[Siraj-ud-daulah]], the last independent [[Nawab of Bengal]], it purchased these villages in 1758 from [[Mir Jafar]] and reorganised them. These villages were known en-bloc as ''[[Dihi Panchannagram]]'' and Belgachia was one of them. It was considered to be a suburb beyond the limits of the [[Maratha Ditch]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/DCHB_A/19/1916_PART_A_DCHB_KOLKATA.pdf |title = District Census Handbook Kolkata, Census of India 2011, Series 20, Part XII A |work = Pages 6-10: The History | publisher= Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal| access-date = 20 February 2018}}</ref><ref>Cotton, H.E.A., ''Calcutta Old and New'', first published 1909/reprint 1980, pages 103-4 and 221, General Printers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd.</ref><ref>Nair, P.Thankappan, ''The Growth and Development of Old Calcutta'', in ''Calcutta, the Living City'', Vol. I, pp. 14-15, Edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, Oxford University Press, 1995 edition.</ref>

== Transport ==
[[File:West Bengal Transport Corporation, Belgachia depot.jpg|thumb|Belgachia CTC (WBTC) Depot]]
Belgachia Road (part of [[Jessore Road]]) passes through Belgachia. It is connected to [[Tala, Kolkata|Tala]], [[Paikpara]] and Northern Avenue via Manmatha Dutta Road-Tara Shankar Sarani and JK Mitra Road-Raja Manindra Road. Many buses ply along these roads. There is also Belgachia CTC (WBTC) Depot on Belgachia Road.<ref>Google maps</ref>

Important Bus routes of Belgachia are as follows:

* 3B (Milk Colony - New Alipore)
* 3D (Milk Colony - Sakherbazar)
* D-36 (Belgachia - Ecospace)
* ACT-36 (Belgachia - Ecospace)
* D-36A (Belgachia - Ecospace)
* 3C/1 (Nagerbazar - Anandapur)
* 30D (Dum Dum Cant - Babughat)
* 30C (Hatiara - Babughat)
* 47B (Lake Town - Kasba Dhanmath)
* 79B (Barasat - Baghbazar)
* 219 (Nagerbazar - Howrah Stn)
* 211A (Ahiritola - Langolpota)
* 215/1 (Lake Town - Howrah Stn)
* 227 (Bangur Ave - B.N.R)
* KB-16 (Bangur Ave - Shapoorji)
* AC 40 (Airport - Howrah Maidan)
* 93 (Kharibari - Baghbazar)
* 91 (Bhangar - Shyambazar)
* 91A (Harao Banstala - Shyambazar)
* DN-18 (Baduria - Shyambazar)

Belgachia is connected to [[Shyambazar]] via Belgachia Rail Overbridge. Earlier there was a tram service up to Belgachia, but now tram tracks are asphalted and tram service is shut down since 2019, due to the excessive pressure on the Belgachia Rail Overbridge.<ref>{{cite web|title=Belgachia Bridge|date=24 October 2019|url=http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/pwd-set-to-remove-tram-tracks-from-belgachia-bridge-381359}}</ref>

[[Kolkata railway station]] is located here, which is one of the 5 major railway hub stations of [[Kolkata Metropolitan Area]].

[[Belgachia metro station]] is the nearest metro station of [[Kolkata Metro]].

== Jain Temple ==
[[File:Belgachhia Pareshnath Mandir (1).jpg|thumb|Belgachia Pareshnath Mandir]]

Shree Digambar Jain Pareswanath Temple is considered one of the most sacred Jain temple of worship in Kolkata.<ref>{{citation |last=Shah |first=Natubhai |title=Jainism: The World of Conquerors |url={{Google books|qLNQKGcDIhsC|pg=PR84|plainurl=yes}} |volume=1 |date=2004 |orig-year=First published in 1998 |publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]] |isbn=81-208-1938-1 | page=84 }}</ref> This temple was built in 1914 and belongs to Diagambar sect of Jainism. This Nagar style temple, with ornamental pillars and sculptures copied from the old Jain temples and caves, casts its shadow in the adjoining tank. The temple is surrounded by four gardens. An 81 feet high Manastambha (Pillar of Pride) with white marble is one of the major attraction of this temple. This temple is dedicated to [[Parshvanatha]], the twenty-third tirthakar of Jainism. The temple also has a dharamshala equipped with modern facilities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kolkatacitytours.com/digambar-jain-paraswanath-temple-kolkata/|title=Paraswanath Temple – Digambar | Kolkata City Tours}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.digambarjainonline.com/pilgri/begachia.htm |title=Shree digambar Jain Parasvanath Temple Belgachia Kolkata |access-date=27 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160716190021/http://www.digambarjainonline.com/pilgri/begachia.htm |archive-date=16 July 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Healthcare==
[[File:R.G. Kar Medical College.jpg|thumb|[[R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital]]]]
[[R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital]] near Belgachia is one of the five [[Health care in Kolkata|government medical colleges and hospitals]] in Kolkata. The medical college is affiliated with the [[West Bengal University of Health Sciences]] and offers undergraduate and post graduate courses.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://rgkarmedicalcollege.org/|title = R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital | publisher= RGKMC| access-date = 11 April 2018}}</ref> The hospital has 1,200 beds.<ref name="health">{{cite web| url = https://www.wbhealth.gov.in/other_files/Hospitals.pdf| title = Health Statistics -> Hospital| work = District:Kolkata| publisher = Government of West Bengal| access-date = 11 April 2018| archive-date = 14 September 2020| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200914160418/https://www.wbhealth.gov.in/other_files/Hospitals.pdf| url-status = dead}}</ref> With the broad vision of taking medical education beyond the limited sphere of the colonial rulers, [[Radha Gobinda Kar|Dr. Radha Gobinda Kar]] and other eminent personalities of the period established the Calcutta School of Medicine in 1886. It had its own building in 1902. It was amalgamated, in 1904, with the College of Physicians and Surgeons, which was founded in 1895. Belgachia Medical College, was formally inaugurated in 1916 by [[Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael|Lord Carmichael]], the first governor of Bengal, after annulment of the [[Partition of Bengal (1905)]]. In 1919, the [[University of Calcutta]] granted it affiliation for the MB course. As Lord Carmichael played a leading role in the development, the college was named after him. In 1948, the college was renamed after its founder and in 1958, it was taken over by the Government of West Bengal.<ref>{{cite journal| pmc = 3208697 |volume = 73|issue = 5|pages = 390–393 |year = 2011|last1 = Chakrabarti|first1 = D. K.|last2 = Mukherjee|first2 = R.|last3 = Bandyopadhyay|first3 = S. K.|last4 = Nath|first4 = S.|last5 = Mukherjee|first5 = S. K.| title=R.G.Kar Medical College, Kolkata—A Premiere Institute of India | journal=Indian Journal of Surgery |pmid = 23024555|doi = 10.1007/s12262-011-0327-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Carmichael,_Lord|title = Carmichael, Lord | website= Banglapedia| access-date = 11 April 2018}}</ref> In 2017, R. G. Kar Medical College was ranked 11th among medical colleges in India by ''[[India Today]]''.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.indiatoday.in/bestcolleges/2017/medical-bestcollege|title = Directory of Best Colleges, 2017: Medical | publisher= India Today | access-date = 11 April 2018}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Calcutta Jain Temple]]
* [[Jainism in West Bengal]]
* [[Kashipur Belgachhia (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kashipur Belgachia (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]]
* [[Belgachia East (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]]
* [[Belgachia West (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]]

== References ==
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{{Kolkata neighbourhoods}}

[[Category:Neighbourhoods in Kolkata]]
[[Category:20th-century Jain temples]]

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