Phoolbagan metro station (or LIC Phoolbagan metro station for sponsorship reasons) is a station of the

Kolkata Metro The Kolkata Metro is a rapid transit system serving the city of Kolkata in West Bengal, India. , it has two operational lines, a line from Dakshineswar to Kavi Subhash and a line from Salt Lake Sector V to Sealdah, for a total of . Four ...

Phoolbagan Phoolbagan is a neighbourhood in North Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Subhas Sarovar is one of the famous tourist attraction of Kolkata present in the locality of Phoolbagan. Geography Police district Phoo ...

, a north neighbourhood of

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, India. The underground station is at the Phoolbagan crossing on the Narkeldanga Main Road. It is near to the

Gurudas College Gurudas College, established in 1956, is an undergraduate college in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is affiliated with the University of Calcutta. The name commemorates the legacy of Sir Gurudas Banerjee, the first Indian vice-chancellor of ...

and Dr. Shyamaprasad Mukherjee Institution. The station opened on 4 October 2020 and commercial services started the next day.

History

Construction

The Station

Structure

This is the first underground station in this line and has island platforms.

Layout

Connections

Rail

is 500m away from the metro station.

Air

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is via VIP Road & C.I.T Road.