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Salt Lake (Bidhannagar)

Salt Lake, officially Bidhannagar, is a planned city in North 24 Parganas that forms part of the Kolkata urban area. Sector V IT hub, stadium, municipal corporation and Green Line metro.

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Salt Lake and Bidhannagar are the same place: a planned city in North 24 Parganas in the Kolkata urban area and Eastern India's main IT hub (Sector V). It is governed by the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation — in Kolkata's urban area but outside KMC limits.

District
North 24 Parganas
Body
Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation

Salt Lake (Bidhannagar) — Kolkata's planned neighbour

Short answer. Salt Lake and Bidhannagar are the same place: a planned city in North 24 Parganas district that forms part of the Kolkata urban area and is Eastern India's main information-technology hub. It is governed by the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (6 boroughs, 41 wards), not by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, so it is in Kolkata's urban area but not inside its municipal limits.

Facts

  • Planning: the reclamation project began in 1962 and was designed by Dobrivoje Tošković. Sector I was completed by 1965 and the first residents arrived in 1970.
  • Size: 634,107 people (2011 census) over 55.51 sq km.
  • Layout: numbered sectors; Sector V is the IT hub, with about 1,500 companies including TCS, Wipro and Cognizant.
  • Salt Lake Stadium: the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan, described as the largest football stadium in India.
  • PIN codes: several, including 700064, 700091 and 700097.

Getting there

The Green Line (Howrah Maidan – Salt Lake Sector V – Teghoria) has run since February 2020.

Related: Kolkata.

Sources

Compiled on 19 September 2026 from Wikipedia's article on Salt Lake City, Kolkata. Statements are attributed to it; where it gives one source's figure, this page says so. Back to Kolkata and its Durga Puja and festival life.

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