Rajpur Sonarpur and Baruipur are two adjacent towns in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, at the southern fringes of Kolkata. It is known for bird sanctuary and ancestral houses of stalwarts like Chintamoni Kar and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
Get in
[edit]By train
[edit]The main railway stations are 1 Sonarpur Junction Sealdah South 
and 2 Baruipur Junction Sealdah South .
By car
[edit]Both Rajpur Sonarpur and Baruipur can be easily reached from Kolkata. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Road and the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass (EM Bypass) run over the area.
Get around
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Map of Rajpur Sonarpur and Baruipur
See and do
[edit]- 1 Ancestral house of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Kodalia, Subhashgram. The Bose family used to live in this house before shifting to Netaji Bhawan at Bhowanipore.
- 2 Bhaskar Bhawan State Museum, NSC Bose Rd, Narendrapur. A museum with numerous sculptures of sculptor Chintamoni Kar.
- 3 Chintamoni Kar Bird Sanctuary (CKBS, Kayaler Bagan, Narendrapur Wildlife Sanctuary), EM Bypass, Narendrapur. Famous for its wide variety of birds, butterflies, ferns and orchids.
- 4 Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, NSC Bose Rd, Narendrapur.
Buy
[edit]- 1 Samukpota. known as the "Green Mall," this village offers an extensive collection of palm trees plus other plants, gardening tools, yoga instructions and South Indian food.
- 2 Wood Square Mall, 169, NSC Bose Rd, Narendrapur.