Chittaranjan Park

Park) is an upscale neighborhood in South East Delhi and home to a large Bengali community.

[1] Nowadays it is considered among the posh localities in South Delhi due to a rise in the market price of its plots.

A large group of government officers hailing from the erstwhile East Bengal migrated to Delhi and lobbied for a residential neighbourhood.

Leading roles were taken by Chandra Kumar Mukherjee,[1] Subodh Gopal Basumallik, Ashutosh Dutta, Bimal Bhusan Chakraborty, and the Chief Election Commissioner, Shyamaprasanna Senverma.

Members were required to provide some documentation of their residential status, and were required to be "already residing in Delhi and gainfully employed in the capital"; based on this, 2147 people were given plots of land, initially on lease for 99 years, but subsequently converted into freehold ownership.

[3] The original layout had the two-thousand odd plots, divided into eleven blocks A-K, along with a number of markets and cultural spaces.

[1] Chittaranjan Park is bordered by Kalkaji, Greater Kailash I and II, Alaknanda and Govindpuri.

There is an explosive growth of South Delhi property prices and many famous builders step into this area for the development of infrastructure and it is also an upmarket and affluent neighbourhood.

Space started to fall short to accommodate the devotees, the land was bought and the present temple built at Tis Hazari in 1917.

Chittaranjan Park is also home to one of the city's main markets for freshwater fish, an integral part of Bengali cuisine, a large Kali temple, several cultural centres, four big markets specialising in Bengali sweets and numerous stalls selling Calcutta-style street food - chops, cutlets, kathi rolls, phuchka, real estate sector and jhaalmuri etc.

The Violet Line of the Delhi Metro has a stop at the Nehru Place station within 1 km from B-block in Chittaranjan Park.

Durga idol at Cooperative Park Puja, Durga Puja 2008