Beliaghata

Beliaghata, also known as Beleghata is a neighbourhood of East Kolkata, in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

The East India Company obtained from the Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar, in 1717, the right to rent from 38 villages surrounding their settlement. Of these 5 lay across the Hooghly in what is now Howrah district. The remaining 33 villages were on the Calcutta side. After the fall of Siraj-ud-daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal, it purchased these villages in 1758 from Mir Jafar and reorganised them. These villages were known en-bloc as Dihi Panchannagram and Beliaghata was one of them. It was considered to be a suburb beyond the limits of the Maratha Ditch.

In 1889, the 'fringe areas' of Maniktala, Ultadanga and Beliaghata were added to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.

In 1892, Shri Gagan Chandra Sarkar, having made a huge fortune from his enormous Fishery Business and having acquired a huge portion of the East Kolkata Wetlands, established himself as the zamindar of Beliaghata and built his Palatial Mansion Beleghata Sarkar Bari on the modern Beleghata Main Road (currently Dr Suresh Chandra Banerjee Road). The house remains, to this date, as one of the major historical places in Beliaghata.

Beliaghata overall is a highly populated locality due to its residing middle-class people of the Kolkataian society. Low height house are the main cause of reduction for space of roads. Mostly pedestrians can pass through the narrow roads of Beliaghata.

Beliaghata police station is part of the Eastern Suburban division of Kolkata Police. It is located at P-57 CIT Road, Kolkata-700010.

Ultadanga Women police station covers all police districts under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Suburban division i.e. Beliaghata, Entally, Maniktala, Narkeldanga, Ultadanga, Tangra and Phoolbagan.

Beliaghata Main Road, which is one of the city's major connectors, connects Eastern Metropolitan Bypass to Central Kolkata. Eastern Metropolitan Bypass (in short EM Bypass), which is the most important highway of Kolkata, passes along the eastern boundary of Beliaghata. CIT Road (Hem Chandra Naskar Road) also starts from Beliaghata Main Road (at CIT More) and connects the locality with Ultadanga. Many buses and auto-rickshaws ply along these roads. Canal Side Road (Chaulpatty Road), which runs beside Beliaghata Canal, helps light vehicles to move around through the densely populated Beliaghata.