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'''Girish Park''' is a neighbourhood of [[North Kolkata]] in [[Kolkata district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].

==Geography==
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===Police district===
Girish Park police station is part of the [[Divisions of Kolkata Police|Central division]] of [[Kolkata Police]]. It is located at 138, Ram Dulal Sarkar Street, Kolkata-700006.<ref name="police">{{cite web| url = http://www.kolkatapolice.gov.in/division.asp?ID=1&Division=C |title = Kolkata Police |work = Central Division – Girish Park police station | publisher= KP| accessdate = 26 March 2018}}</ref>

[[Taltala#Police district|Taltala Women police station]] covers all police districts under the jurisdiction of the Central division, i.e. Bowbazar, Burrabazar, Girish Park, Hare Street, Jorasanko, Muchipara, New Market, Taltala and Posta.<ref name="police"/>

==Flyover collapse==
In the [[Kolkata flyover collapse|Vivekananda flyover collapse]], when a portion of the under-construction flyover collapsed in the Girish Park neighbourhood on 31 March 2016, 81 persons were killed and 205 injured.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/under-construction-bridge-collapses-in-north-kolkata-many-feared-dead-315627-2016-03-31 |title = Kolkata flyover collapse: 21 dead, 85 injured says Mamata Banerjeee | publisher= India Today | date=31 March 2016| accessdate = 26 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/under-construction-flyover-collapses-in-kolkata-casualties-feared/story-vWTWBzpprEqUBDiLYPZtPL.html|title = As it happened, Kolkata flyover collapses, many dead | newspaper= Hindustan Times | date=31 March 2016| accessdate = 26 March 2018}}</ref>

==Transport==
===Road===
Girish Park is the junction of [[Chittaranjan Avenue]] and [[Vivekananda Road]]. Beadon Street (Dani Ghosh Sarani/Abhedananda Road) also intersects [[Chittaranjan Avenue]] nearby. Many buses ply along these roads.<ref>Google maps</ref>

===Train===
[[Burra Bazar railway station]] and [[Sealdah Station]] are the nearest railway stations.

==References==
{{reflist}}

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

{{Neighbourhoods in Kolkata}}

[[Category:Neighbourhoods in Kolkata]]

{{Kolkata-geo-stub}}

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>Soumo Dutt at 16:35, 2 June 2020