Bijon Setu is a bridge situated above Ballygunge Junction railway station connects

EM Bypass The Eastern Metropolitan Bypass (known simply as both ''E.M. Bypass'' and ''EM Bypass'') is a (Including Kamalgazi to Baruipur extension) major road on the east side of Kolkata. It connects Ultadanga (North Kolkata) to Baruipur Puratan Bazar ...

through Kasba with Gariahat.

History

The bridge is named after a

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the ...

engineer Bijon Basu. 35 year old Basu was an executive engineer of

Calcutta Improvement Trust The Kolkata Improvement Trust, initially known as the Calcutta Improvement Trust or simply the C.I.T., was a statutory body under the Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Department of the Government of West Bengal The Government of We ...

. On 2 August 1974, while he was returning home from Santoshpur to

Sealdah Sealdah is a neighbourhood of Central Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Etymology Jackals (''sheal'' in Bengali) howled around Sealdah. Antiquarians identify it as Shrigaldwipa (Jackal Island). Nearby Beliaghata w ...

, a gang of robbers got on the train and looted passengers. Basu protested but the robbers stabbed him and threw him out from the running train beside Ballygunge railway station. The bridge was established in 1978.

1982 Massacre

16 monks and one nun of a Hindu organization

Ananda Marga Ānanda Mārga ("The Path of Bliss", also spelled Anand Marg and Ananda Marg) or officially Ānanda Mārga Pracāraka Saṃgha (organization for the propagation of the path of bliss), is a world-wide socio-spiritual organisation founded in J ...

religious sect were lynched and burnt alive near Bijon Setu in the morning of 30 April 1982. This incident was called as

Bijon Setu massacre The Bijon Setu massacre ( bn, বিজন সেতু হত্যাকাণ্ড) was the killing and burning of 16 sadhus and a sadhvi belonging to Ananda Marga, at Bijon Setu, near Ballygunge, Kolkata, in West Bengal, India, on 30 April ...

References

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