# Garia

Garia is a neighbourhood of South Kolkata in the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is bordered by the neighbourhoods of Jadavpur in the north, Bansdroni/Tollygunge in the north-west, Santoshpur/Mukundapur in the north-east and Narendrapur/Rajpur Sonarpur in the south. It is on the banks of Adi Ganga.

## Geographic location

The junction of Raja S.C.Mullick Road, N.S.C. Bose Road and Garia Main Road adjacent to Kanungo Park is known as "Garia More".
vtePlaces adjacent to Garia :
Tollygunge, Regent Park
Jadavpur
Survey Park, Ajoynagar, Santoshpur
Purba Putiary
Garia
Mukundapur
Rajpur
Narendrapur, Sonarpur
Ganga Joara :

## Shopping

Garia is one of the major shopping areas of Kolkata. Notable shopping malls and department stores include:
* Metropolis Mall, Hiland Park, EM Bypass, Chak Garia
* Smart Bazaar, Orbit Mall, Garia
* Spencer's, Garia Station Road
* Spencer's Express, Baishnabghata Patuli Township
* Spencer's Express, Tolly Heights, Naktala
* Proyozonio
* Bizarre Bazar
* Sonar Bangla Shopping Complex
* Pooja Plaza (Near Garia Bazaar)
* Parnashree Market (Near Garia Main Road)
* New Raghunath Market
* Brand Factory (Near Mahamayatala, Garia)
* Bazaar Kolkata (Mahamayatala, Garia)

## Medical facilities

Several medical institutes are found within Garia.
* The Apollo Clinic
* Bengal Rural Welfare Service (BRWS) Hospital
* Banchbo Healing Touch
* Peerless Hospital (Panchasayar)
* Remedy Hospital (Kalitala)
* Lifeline Hospital (Pratapgarh)
* Namita Biswas Memorial Eye Hospital (Garia Station)
* Sevangan Nursing Home
* Smilz Dental Treatment Facility (Garia Park)
* Remedy Diagnostic Center
* Medich Health Clinic and Diagnostic Centre
* Friends Diagnostic Private Limited
* Mother Teresa Memorial TB Hospital and Research Centre
* Neotia Mediplus Super Specialty Clinic (part of Park Hospitals), 168 Garia Main Road, Kolkata 700084 (Opp. 228 bus stand)

## Education

Garia is home to several academic, research and professional institutions. Major colleges, schools and research institutions located here include:
* Netaji Subhash Engineering College
* Indian Centre for Space Physics, Garia Station Road
* Dinabandhu Andrews College-affiliated to Calcutta University.
* Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute
* Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
* Seacom Marine College
* National Institute of Hotel Management, Kolkata
* Sammilani Mahavidyalaya
* K.K. Das College
* Future Institute of Engineering and Management
* Swami Vivekananda Institute of Science and Technology
* Neotia Academy Of Nursing, Chak Garia
* Indus Valley World School
* Welland Gouldsmith School
* Techno India Group Public School
* Techno Model School
* Miranda High School
* B.D. Memorial Institute-Mahamayatala
* Garia Baroda Prasad High School
* Garia Harimati Devi U. Balika School
* Garia Vidyabhavana South School
* Kids World School
* Ideal commercial College
* Garia Madrasah Badrul Uloom Quraniya - Islamic Educational Institute
* Balia Nafar Chandra Balika Vidyalaya
* Tentulberia Anukul Chandra High School

## In popular culture

In early 1953, the principal photography of Satyajit Ray's debut film Pather Panchali was done at Boral, which was then a small village on the outskirts of Kolkata and is now a locality of Garia. A decade later, Ray again shot a scene of Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne in the dense bamboo groves near a pond in Garia.

## Notable people

* Ashapurna Devi, novelist and poet
* Anurag Basu, film director
* Kaushik Ganguly, film director
* Churni Ganguly, actress
* Locket Chatterjee, actress
* Rashid Khan, classical singer
* Srijato, poet
* Kabir Suman, poet, singer, musician and socio-political activist
* Sayak Chakraborty, television actor