Now it has become a business hub, well connected with Kolkata with trains, buses and other means of transport. Belgharia is one of the stations of the main train line starting from Sealdah. This place is a suburb of Kolkata city capital of West Bengal in India. The Feeder road to the Belgharia railway station. Feeder road is one of the main roads in Belghoria. Feeder road connects Belghoria to B.T
. Road (i.e. Barrackpore Trunk Road) to the west and through Madhusudan Banerjee (MB) Road to Birati and consequently to Jessore road in the east. Ramakrishna Paramhansa visited this place 8 times and the 1st time was in 1875. Ramakrishna Mission also situated here and they run a Students' Home for meritorius poor and needy students along with a 3 year Diploma Engg. College . They are also conducting relief activities with a public library and homeopatic dispensary. Swami Vijnananda. a direct disciple of Ramakrishna also resided here. The main educational institutions of Belgharia are Belgharia Bhairab Ganguly College, High School, Jatindas Vidyamandir, Udaypur Haradayal Nag Adarsha Vidyalaya etc. Bhairab Ganguly College is situated near Belgharia post office. The newly built Belghoria Expressway which links Jassore Road with Dumdum Airport and Nivedita Setu on Ganges increased the importance of this places. The place is now beaming up with flats. People can have an easy access to anything within no time. Mahakali Girls High School does have a special mention. Pincode - 700056
Belgharia still oozes old world charm of Bengal. The cosmopolitan culture of new age Bengal hasn't yet penetrated the town. The population consists of generally middle class Bengali [Bhadralok]. Of late a lot of student messes has sprung up chiefly because of the low cost of living and close proximity to the city of Kolkata. NOTE:It has a very old history which is unknown to the most.Here is a cannale called Bagjola cannale.Some details have been in some 14th century's text written by mughals.It had a big market beside Nadikul(Nimta).Very Dangerous areas were modern day Prafullanagar & also Usumpore & Narendranagar due to high population of Thengare(Dacoit who uses long stick as their weapon & killed their victims by that).Usumpore & Narendranagar remain very Dangerous due to them till the first half of 19th century.
