Ultadanga

Ultadanga lay outside the Maratha Ditch, beyond Halsibagan, where the Sikh billionaire Umichand had a garden.

[1] The East India Company obtained from the Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar, in 1717, the right to rent from 38 villages surrounding their settlement.

After the fall of Siraj-ud-daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal, it purchased these villages in 1758 from Mir Jafar and reorganised them.

It was a ghat area and chances are that this too would be on the banks of the Ganges at some point of time in history, before the river changed its course.

Honey da Dhaba, Bika, Delhi Darbar and Rose are few of the many restaurants located in and close to the Ultadanga area.

Arena Animation Kankurgachi, Jetking Institute, FIIT JEE, DGCT BRAIN Credence Academy, Kolkata Cables, BSNL and BrandMantra Solutions Pvt.

EM Bypass also runs parallel to CIT Road on the eastern boundary of Ultadanga.

On 12 January 2010, a fire broke out at a slum in Ultadanga, popularly known as 'Basanti Colony', leaving 1 man dead and 450 homeless.

Bidhannagar Road railway station (Ultadanga railway station) over Ultadanga Main Road (Bidhannagar Road)
Mani Imperial (Residential Complex), Ultadanga
BSNL Tower, CIT Road, Ultadanga
CSTC (WBTC) Bus Depot, Ultadanga
Busy VIP Road in Ultadanga at night