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SANTINIKETAN TOURS

Help Line:

 

Police :

  • Bolpur Police Station : (03463) 252-228

  • Bolpur Circle Inspector Office : (03463) 252-266

  • Surul I.C. : (03463) 264-546

  • Bolpur Emergency Police Help Service : 100

  • Santiniketan I.C. : (03463) 253-201

Fire Brigade:

  • Santiniketan Fire Station :131 / (03463) 252-301

Administrative Office Contact Number

  • Bolpur Sub Division Office (S.D.O.) : (03463) 252-700

  • Bolpur Block Division Office (B.D.O.) : (03463) 264-280

  • Bolpur Sub Divisional Police Office : (03463) 254-424 (Office), 252-424 (Residence)

 

Transport

  • Rail: A train Direct to Bolpur from Howrah and Sealdha station.

 

  • Bus: A bus from kolkata dharmatala/esplanade is available.

 

       Bus from Durgapur Railway station is also available for Bolpur/Santiniketan.

Popular Attraction in Santiniketan

 

  • Prayer Hall

  • Dehali

  • China Bhavana

  • Black House

  • Shantiniketan Griha

  • Kala Bhavan

  • Uttarayan Complex

  • Bichitra

  • Sangeet Bhavan

  • Chhatimtala

  • Kankalitala

  • Visva-Bharati Central Library

  • Gardens and Parks at Shantiniketan

Places near Santiniketan

 

  • Fullora (40 km)

  • Nalhati (104 km)

  • Kankalitala (7 km)

  • Bakreshwar (58 km)

  • Massanjore (78 km)

  • Kendubilwa (42 km)

  • Nanoor (23 km)

  • Tarapith (80 km)

  • Kolkata (163 km)

  • Durgapur (58 km)

  • Burdhaman (58 km)

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ABOUT SANTINIKETAN

SHANTINEKETAN is a BASEMENT ROCK OF CULTURE CITY in Birbhum district of West Bengal. It is situated at a distance of near about 170 km from Kolkata,founded by RABINDRANATH TAGORE'S father MAHARSHI DEBENDRANATH TAGORE. He alsoestablished an ashram here in 1901. At first it is using an experimental centre of learning platform with a study centre BRAMHACHARYA SCHOOL under Chhatim tree known as CHHATIMTALA with five pupils by RABINDRANATH TAGORE. Known as Patha Bhavan,which is expanded as the name of VISHVA BHARATI UNIVERSITY since 1921. Which through a cultural and artistic environmental attraction to students of the world. The place is an achievement of the great poetic incarnation GURUDEV RABINDRANATH TAGORE.It grew to become one of India's most renowned places of higher learning, with a list of alumni that includes Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen, globally renowned filmmaker Satyajit Ray and the country's leading art historian, R. Siva Kumar, to name just a few

 

Santiniketan is also a tourist attraction because Rabindranath Tagore wrote many of his literary classics here, and his house is a place of historical importance.

 

Numerous social and cultural events taking place throughout the year, have become part and parcel of Shantiniketan. These include - Basanta Utsav, Barsha Mangal, Sharodutsav, Nandan Mela, Poush Mela, Magh Mela, Rabindra Jayanti to name a few. Of these, the Poush Mela deserves special mention, this being a major tourist attraction.It is a 3-day fair (Bengali, mela means a fair ), starting on the seventh day of the Bengali month Poush(usually, last week of December). It fetches not just tourists, but also artisans, folk singers, dancers, and the traditional Baul from the neighbourhood.

 Santiniketan Climate

 

  • Summer in Kolkata ( March -June)

  • Monsoons in Kolkata ( June - September )

  • Winter ( December - February )

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