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Dum Dum Park

neighbourhood in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ85757862 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dum Dum Park is a neighbourhood in South Dumdum of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA).

Geography

Police station

Lake Town police station under Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate has jurisdiction over Dum Dum Park areas.

Post office

Dum Dum Park has a non-delivery sub post office, with PIN 700055 in the Kolkata East Division of North 24 Parganas district in Calcutta region. Other post offices with the same PIN are Bangur Avenue and Shyamnagar.

Durga Puja

In recent years, various organizations in Dum Dum Park like Dum Dum Park Tarun Sangha, Dum Dum Park Bharat Chakra, Dum Dum Park Tarun Dal, Dum Dum Park Yubak Brinda and Dum Dum Park Sarbojanin Durga Puja Samity have come into limelight for their most elaborate and innovative theme Durga Puja.

Transport

Bus

Buses ply along Jessore Road and VIP Road are:

WBTC Bus

AC 39 Airport - Howrah Stn

VS 2 Airport - Howrah Stn

V 1 Airport - Tollygunge

AC 37C Airport - Garia

AC 37 Barasat - Garia

AC 50A Garia - Rajchandrapur

AC 2 Barasat - Howrah Stn

EB-13 Hatisala - Howrah Stn

S 64 Naihati - Newtown

AC 40 Airport - Howrah Maidan

Private Bus

3C/1 Nagerbazar - Anandapur

3C/2 Nagerbazar - Anandapur

12C/2 Dum Dum Park - Howrah station

L238 Barasat - Howrah station

30C Hatiara - Babughat

30C/1 Hatiara - Babughat

30D Dum Dum Cantonment - Babughat

44 Baguiati - Howrah Station

44/1 Baguiati - Howrah Station

45 Kolkata Airport - Baishnabghata Patuli

46 Kolkata Airport - Esplanade

46B New Town - Esplanade

79B Barasat - Bagbazar

79D Madhyamgram - Babughat

91 Bhangar Kanthalia - Shyambazar

91A Haroa - Shyambazar

91C Lauhati - Shyambazar

93 Kharibari - Bagbazar

211 Kharibari/Patharghata - Ahiritola

211A Langolpota - Ahiritola

211B Ganraguri - Ahiritola

215 New Town - Howrah Station

217 Beraberi - Babughat

217A Narayanpur - Babughat

217B Bablatala - Babughat

219 Nagerbazar - Howrah Station

221 Nagerbazar - Golpark

223 B.T. College - Golf Green

227 Bangur Avenue - BNR Colony

237 Birati Tantkal - Babughat

253 Basirhat - Esplanade

KB16 Bangur Avenue - New Town Shapoorji Housing Estate

KB21 Ganganagar - Science City

DN8 Barasat - Salt Lake Karunamoyee

DN16/1 Barasat - Dhamakhali

DN18 Shyambazar - Baduria

Mini Bus

S175 New Barrackpore - Howrah Stn

S151 Kolkata Airport - B.B.D. Bagh

S152 Baguiati - B.B.D. Bagh

S172 Teghoria Haldirams - Howrah Maidan

S184 Birati railway station - B.B.D. Bagh

Air

The Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata is at a distance of about 5.00 kilometres from Dum Dum Park.

Major Roads

VIP Road

Jessore Road

Shyambazar Five Point Crossing is at a distance of 4.2 kilometres from Dum Dum Park More.

Shopping

Diamond Plaza Mall, one of the major shopping mall in Dum Dum area and around North Kolkata.

Markets

Markets in or near Dum Dum Park area are:

Dum Dum Park Market

Nagerbazar Market

Healthcare

R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital Kolkata, is located around 3.50 kilometres from Dum Dum Park.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Dum Dum Park” as neighbourhood in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 514-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Park, neighbourhood and North can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as neighbourhood in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85757862. Authority coordinates are 22.610, 88.414. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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