![]() The metro station entrance, during its inauguration in January 2021. | |||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Other names | LIC Phoolbagan metro station | ||||||||||
Location | 111, Narkeldanga Main Road, Phoolbagan, Kankurgachi, Kolkata, West Bengal 700054![]() | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 22°34′20″N88°23′22″E / 22.572131°N 88.389441°E | ||||||||||
Owned by | Metro Railway, Kolkata Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation | ||||||||||
Operated by | Kolkata Metro | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Green Line | ||||||||||
Platforms | Island platform Platform-1 → Salt Lake Sector-V Platform-2 → Howrah Maidan | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Connections | ![]() | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | Underground, Double track | ||||||||||
Accessible | Yes ![]() | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Status | Operational | ||||||||||
Fare zone | East-West | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 4 October 2020 | ||||||||||
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Phoolbagan (also known as LIC Phoolbagan for sponsorship reasons [1] ) is an underground metro station on the East-West corridor of the Green Line of Kolkata Metro in Phoolbagan, a north neighbourhood of Kolkata, India. The underground station is at the Phoolbagan crossing on the Narkeldanga Main Road. It is near to the Gurudas College and Dr. Shyamaprasad Mukherjee Institution. [2] The station opened on 4 October 2020 and commercial services started the next day. [3]
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This is the first underground station in this line and has island platforms.
Phoolbagan track layout | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station with two tracks and one Island platform |
G | Street level | Exit/Entrance |
M | Mezzanine | Fare control, station agent, Ticket/token, shops |
P | Platform 1 Eastbound | Towards → Salt Lake Sector-V next station is Salt Lake Stadium |
Island platform | Doors will open on the right ![]() | ||
Platform 2 Westbound | Towards ← Howrah Maidan next station is Sealdah |
Sir Gurudas Banerjee Halt is 500m away from the metro station.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport is 10.6 km (6.6 mi) via VIP Road & C.I.T Road.
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