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'''Beniapukur''' is a neighbourhood of [[Kolkata|Central Kolkata]] in [[Kolkata district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]]. It is adjacent to [[Park Circus]].

==Etymology==
The name of the neighbourhood is derived from two words, ''benia'' and ''pukur''. Influential ''[[Bania (caste)|benias]]'' or merchants, particularly ''gandhabaniks'', perfume and spice traders, settled here. They had dug a tank or ''pukur'' in the area.<ref name="Nair">Nair, P. Thankappan, ''The Growth and Development of Old Calcutta'', in ''Calcutta, the Living City'', Vol. I, edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, pp. 18-19, Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-19-563696-3}}.</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 Beniapukur was one of them.<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 name="Nair"/>

The Maratha Ditch was dug in 1742 and it was partly filled up in 1799 to create the Circular Road (now [[AJC Bose Road & APC Road|Acharya Jagaidsh Chandra Bose Road]]).<ref name="Nair"/>

Entally, Maniktala, Beliaghata, Ultadanga, Chitpur, Cossipore, parts of Beniapukur, Ballyganj, Watganj and Ekbalpur, and parts of Garden Reach and Tollygunj were added to [[Kolkata Municipal Corporation]] in 1888. Garden Reach was later taken out.<ref>Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, ''Wealth and Work in Calcutta, 1860-1921'', in ''Calcutta, the Living City'', Vol. I, p. 213.</ref>

In 1888, one of the 25 newly organized police section houses was located in Beniapukur, which is mentioned from the mid-eighteenth century, but the ''thana'' dates from the early 19th century.<ref name="Nair"/>

==Geography==
===Police district===
Beniapukur police station is part of the [[Divisions of Kolkata Police|South East division]] of [[Kolkata Police]]. It is located at 48A, Gorachand Road, Kolkata-700014.<ref name="police">{{cite web |url = http://kolkatapolice.gov.in/division.asp?ID=6&Division=N |title = Kolkata Police |work = South East Division |publisher = KP |access-date = 21 March 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180314034534/http://www.kolkatapolice.gov.in/division.asp?ID=6&Division=N |archive-date = 14 March 2018 |url-status = dead }}</ref>

[[Park Circus#Police district|Karaya Women police station]], has jurisdiction over all police districts under the jurisdiction of the South East Division, i.e. Topsia, Beniapukur, Ballygunge, Gariahat, Lake, Karaya, Rabindra Sarobar and Tiljala.<ref name="police"/>

==Education==
*Pratt Memorial School at Beniapukur is an English-medium girls only school. The school prepares its students for the [[Indian School Certificate]] (ISC) and the [[Indian Certificate of Secondary Education]] (ICSE) examinations. The school was founded in 1876 in memory of Archdeacon John Henry Pratt primarily for the education of Anglo-Indian and Christian children. It is under the Diocese of Kolkata, the [[Church of North India]], and is an unaided minority institution.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://prattmemorialschool.com/|title = Pratt Memorial School | publisher= PMC| access-date = 5 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.icbse.com/schools/pratt-memorial-school/wb022 |title = Pratt Memorial School | publisher= ICBSE| access-date = 5 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://schoolconnects.in/pratt-memorial-school-beniapukur| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180407182710/https://schoolconnects.in/pratt-memorial-school-beniapukur| url-status = dead| archive-date = 7 April 2018| title = Pratt Memorial School, Beniapukur| publisher = School Connects| access-date = 5 April 2018}}</ref>
*[[The Frank Anthony Public School, Kolkata]] at Beniapukur is an English-medium co-educational school. The foundation stone of the school was laid by social activist [[Frank Anthony]] in 1965. The school prepares its students for the [[Indian School Certificate]] (ISC) and the [[Indian Certificate of Secondary Education]] (ICSE) examinations.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://calcutta.faps.edu.in/tiki-index.php?page=Affiliations | title = The Frank Anthony Public School | publisher = FAPS | access-date = 5 April 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180407120028/http://calcutta.faps.edu.in/tiki-index.php?page=Affiliations | archive-date = 7 April 2018 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

==Healthcare==
[[File:CALCUTTA NATIONAL MEDICAL COLLEGE 2008.jpg|thumb|Academic Section of [[Calcutta National Medical College|Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital]] (Chittaranjan Hospital)]]
*[[Calcutta National Medical College|Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital]] (Chittaranjan Hospital) at Beniapukur offers MBBS, Post graduate (MD, MS, Diploma) and Post Doctoral (DM, Mch) courses and is affiliated to the [[West Bengal University of Health Sciences]]. The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons was set up in 1911 at Bow Bazar. The name was later changed to National Medical College of India and still later became Calcutta Medical College on land donated by [[Manindra Chandra Nandy|Maharaja Sir Manindra Chandra Nandy]] on Upper Circular Road. Another medical institute at Bow Bazar started as Calcutta Free Hospital in 1910, became Kings Hospital National Medical College (''Jatiya Vaidya Shastrapith'') and later changed its name to National Medical Institute (''Jatiya Aurvigyan Vidyalaya''). Both the medical institutions were merged in 1923, and became Calcutta Medical Institute. In 1925, [[Chittaranjan Das|Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das]], then Mayor, allotted a plot of land at Beniapukur for construction of a hospital of National Medical Institute. He also laid the foundation stone for the hospital and it was for some time named after him. In 1948, Calcutta National Medical Institute was formed with the amalgamation of National Medical Institute and Calcutta Medical Institute. The latter's property at Upper Circular Road was disposed of. Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital was totally moved to Beniapukur in 1964 and in 1967, it was taken over by the government.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://cnmckolkata.webs.com/ | title = Welcome to Calcutta National Medical College | publisher = Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital | access-date = 5 April 2018 | archive-date = 7 April 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180407073925/http://www.cnmckolkata.webs.com/ | url-status = dead }}</ref> Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, a [[Healthcare in Kolkata|state government hospital]] has 1,470 beds.<ref name="bed">{{cite web| url = https://www.wbhealth.gov.in/other_files/Hospitals.pdf| title = Health and Family Welfare Department| work = Health Statistics -> Hospital| publisher = Government of West Bengal| access-date = 6 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>

==Transport==
===Road===
Many buses ply along [[AJC Bose Road & APC Road|Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road]], [[Park Street, Kolkata|Park Street]], Suhrawardy Avenue, Darga Road and CIT Road in Beniapukur. Nonapukur tram depot-cum-workshop, where all manufacturing, modernisation and refurbishing of trams are done, is also situated here. [[Trams in Kolkata|Kolkata tram]] route no. 25 serves Beniapukur (via Nonapukur-[[AJC Bose Road & APC Road|AJC Bose Road]]-[[Park Street, Kolkata|Park Street]]-[[Park Circus]]).<ref>Google maps</ref>
===Train===
[[Park Circus railway station]] on [[Sealdah South Lines]] is the nearest railway station. [[Sealdah Station]], one of the major railway-terminals of the city, is also located nearby.

==External links==
{{Wikivoyage-inline|Kolkata/South}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Neighbourhoods in Kolkata}}

[[Category:Neighbourhoods in Kolkata]]

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