Mukundapur is a neighbourhood of East Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Economy
Geography
Police district
Purba Jadavpur police station is part of the East division of Kolkata Police. It is located at 305, Mukundapur Main Road, Kolkata-700 099.
Jadavpur, Thakurpukur, Behala, Purba Jadavpur, Tiljala, Regent Park, Metiabruz, Nadial and Kasba police stations were transferred from South 24 Parganas to Kolkata in 2011. Except Metiabruz, all the police stations were split into two. The new police stations are Parnasree, Haridevpur, Garfa, Patuli, Survey Park, Pragati Maidan, Bansdroni and Rajabagan.
Healthcare
Mukundapur has developed as a hospital neighbourhood, with a number of varied medical facilities:
- Apollo Hospitals launched a platform Ask Apollo to book an instant appointment online with the doctors in Kolkata at Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals Kolkata. It is a 510-bed hospital including a 50-bedded surgical unit.
- AMRI Hospital, earlier known as Vision Care Hospital, was established in 1962, as a 150-bed multi-speciality hospital.
- Medica Superspecialty Hospital, Kolkata, established in 2010, is a 500-bed tertiary care hospital with the latest medical care facilities.
- Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, a unit of Narayana Health group, established in 2000, is a 500-bed multi-specialty hospital.
- Sankara Nethralaya, Kolkata, an eye hospital, was established in 1978.
Real Estates
Mukundapur has been witnessing a property development boom. Compared with other neighbourhoods of Kolkata, prices are in the mid/higher mid range and has been going up steadily.
Utalika Luxury ~ The Condoville and Utalika Efficiency and Comfort, an Ambuja Neotia Luxury project is currently under construction. It is a premier luxury housing complex of more than 1000 simplex, duplex, penthouse (triplex) apartments in 6 Buildings (namely: Prathama, Dwitiya, Tritiya, Chaturthi, Panchami and Efficiency & Comfort) and 2 private ponds, at Mukundapur. The towers are 25 storied tall, having surrounded by schools like South Point School and Birla High School at Mukundapur, institutes, hospitals, star hotels, restaurants, department stores and malls; just off EM Bypass, it is located right behind AMRI, RN Tagore and BHS Mukundapur. The Future development zone consisting of a partly residential and partly commercial towers with facilities such as residential apartments, retail, offices, hotel, serviced apartments, club, banquets, restaurants, lounge bar, sporting and leisure facilities, time share units, spa and fitness center are also supposed to come up.
Bengal Peerless Housing Development Company, a joint venture company of West Bengal Housing Board and Peerless General Finance and Investment Company Limited has already constructed Avidipta Phase I, a large complex of 1,068 apartments in 15 blocks, at Mukundapur. As of 2018, the company is launching Avidipta II HIG, consisting of 2 forty-six storied towers and Avidipta II MIG (G 29).
Transport
Jyotirindra Nath Nandi metro station, under construction on the Kavi Subhas-Biman Bandar route (Kolkata Metro Orange Line), would serve Mukundapur, Santoshpur, Ajoy Nagar and Survey Park areas lying close to the E.M. Bypass section of the city. It has been named in honour of the Bengali writer Jyotirindranath Nandi. Besides Satyajit Ray metro station (named in honour of the Bengali film-director Satyajit Ray) would also serve these areas.
Bus routes
- 1 Mukundapur - Ramnagar
- 1A Mukundapur - Ramnagar
- 24A/1 Mukundapur - Howrah station
- SD-16 Mukundapur - Shirakole
Commute by car
AIRPORT
- 21 km (55 min) from Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport
MALLS
- 100 m (1 min) from Metro Cash & Carry
- 1 km (5 min) from Metropolis Mall
- 4 km (15 mins) from Acropolis Mall
- 5 km (20 mins) from South City Mall
- 8 km (30 mins) from Quest Mall
- 10 km (32 min) from Forum Mall
- 11 km (35 min) from Mani Square
- 13 km (40 min) from City Center-1
HOSPITALS
- 100 m (1 min) from Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences
- 100 m (1 min) from AMRI Hospital
- 100 m (1 min) from Medica Super Speciality Hospital
- 100 m (1 min) from Aditya Birla Sankara Nethralaya
- 2 km (10 mins) from Peerless Hospital
- 3 km (12 mins) from Ruby General Hospital
- 3.5 km (13 mins) from Fortis Hospital
- 3.2 km (13 mins) from Desun Hospital And Heart Institute
- 10 km (32 mins) from Apollo Multispeciality Hospitals
- 11 km (35 mins) from Woodlands Multispeciality Hospital
SCHOOLS
- 100 m (1 min) from Birla High School
- 200 m (2 min) from South Point School
- 3.5 km (12 min) from Calcutta International School
- 3.5 m (12 min) from The Heritage School, Kolkata
- 4 km (13 min) from Delhi Public School (DPS) Ruby Park
- 4.5 km (14 min) from Garden High School
- 5 km (20 mins) from South City International School
References
External links
Kolkata/East travel guide from Wikivoyage – it includes a list of guest houses in Mukundapur
