Chetla is a neighbourhood of South Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Geography Police district Chetla police station is part of the South division of Kolkata Police and is located at 19/4 Pitamber Ghatak Lane, Kolkata-700027.
See also – Chetla police station boundary map
Tollygunge Women's police station has jurisdiction over all the police districts in the South Division, i.e. Park Street, Shakespeare Sarani, Alipore, Hastings, Maidan, Bhowanipore, Kalighat, Tollygunge, Charu Market, New Alipur and Chetla.
Culture The renovated Nabaratna temple of the Bawali Raj family of Chetla is the largest and most important temple of this type in south Kolkata.Lahiri Choudhury, Dhriti Kanta, Trends in Calcutta Architecture 1690-1903, in Calcutta, the Living City, Vol. I, pages 169-170, Edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, Oxford University Press, 1995 edition.
Notable people
Dinesh Das, Indian poet, author and writer, Marxist activist, won the Rabindra Puraskar
Transport Several buses ply on Chetla Central Road.
Bus routes 3B (Milk Colony - New Alipore) S-22 (Shakuntala Park - Karunamoyee) S-46 (Rabindra Nagar - Karunamoyee) SD76 (Amtala - Ruby Hospital) M-14 (Behala 14 no - New Town) S-62 (Ramnagar - Patuli)
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