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|subdivision_name2 = [[Kolkata]]
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|subdivision_name3 = [[Kolkata district|Kolkata]]
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|subdivision_name4 = [[Sealdah metro station|Sealdah]](under construction), [[Phoolbagan metro station|Phoolbagan]](under construction) and [[Beliaghata metro station|Beliaghata]](under construction)
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| blank1_name_sec1 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
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'''Beliaghata''', also known as '''Beleghata''', is a neighbourhood of Central [[Kolkata]], in [[Kolkata district]], West Bengal, India.

==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 Beliaghata 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>

In 1889, the 'fringe areas' of [[Maniktala]], [[Ultadanga]] and Beliaghata were added to the [[Kolkata Municipal Corporation]].<ref>Nair, P.Thankappan, ''The Growth and Development of Old Calcutta'', in ''Calcutta, the Living City'', Vol. I, p. 13, Edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, Oxford University Press, 1995 edition.</ref>

==Geography==
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Beliaghata overall is a highly populated locality due to its residing middle-class people of the Kolkataian society. Low height house are the main cause of reduction for space of roads. Mostly pedestrians can pass through the narrow roads of Beliaghata.
[[File:ID And BG Hospital Entrance - 57 Beliaghata Main Road - Kolkata 2014-09-29 7554.JPG|thumb|ID And BG Hospital, Beliaghata]]
[[File:Raikva Building - 3A Ram Mohan Mullick Garden Lane - Beleghata - Kolkata 20180223150047.jpg|thumb|Raikva Building, [[EM Bypass]], Beliaghata]]

===Police district===
Beliaghata police station is part of the [[Divisions of Kolkata Police|Eastern Suburban division]] of [[Kolkata Police]]. It is located at P-57 CIT Road, Kolkata-700010.<ref name="police">{{cite web |url = http://kolkatapolice.gov.in/division.asp?ID=2&Division=E |title = Kolkata Police |work = Eastern Suburban Division |publisher = KP |access-date = 5 March 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180330093155/http://kolkatapolice.gov.in/division.asp?ID=2&Division=E |archive-date = 30 March 2018 |url-status = dead }}</ref>

[[Ultadanga#Police district|Ultadanga Women police station]] covers all police districts under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Suburban division i.e. Beliaghata, Entally, Maniktala, Narkeldanga, Ultadanga, Tangra and Phoolbagan.<ref name="police"/>

==Transport==
[[File:CIT Road - Beliaghata - Kolkata 2014-09-29 7552.JPG|thumb|CIT More, Beliaghata]]
Beliaghata Main Road, which is one of the city's major connectors, connects [[Eastern Metropolitan Bypass]] to Central Kolkata. Eastern Metropolitan Bypass (in short EM Bypass), which is the most important highway of [[Kolkata]], passes along the eastern boundary of Beliaghata. CIT Road (Hem Chandra Naskar Road) also starts from Beliaghata Main Road (at CIT More) and connects the locality with [[Ultadanga]]. Many buses and auto-rickshaws ply along these roads. Canal Side Road (Chaulpatty Road), which runs beside Beliaghata Canal, helps light vehicles to move around through the densely populated Beliaghata.<ref name='Gm'>Google maps</ref>

However, Beliaghata has a police station at CIT More near Subhas Sarobar and this police station is in the control of a huge area. Traffic jam being the main problem here, police are working hard to make smooth flow of vehicles. Belighata has 4 major crossing points:- first is Building More (Chingrighata), second is CIT More, third lies between CIT More and [[Sealdah]] i.e. Alochhaya Cinema bus stop and fourth crossing over the Beleghata Canal (Khalpol).<ref name='Gm'/>

[[Sealdah Station]], one of the major railway-terminals of the city, is the nearest railway station.
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==External links==
{{Wikivoyage-inline|Kolkata/East}}

==References==
{{commons category|Beleghata}}
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{{Neighbourhoods in Kolkata}}

[[Category:Geography of Kolkata]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Kolkata]]
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