Bidhannagar

Bidhannagar, also called Salt Lake City, is a planned city in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India, on the north-eastern side of Kolkata and within the area of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. It is named for Bidhan Chandra Roy, the second premier and first chief minister of West Bengal, and was built from the late 1960s on reclaimed wetlands to relieve the pressure on Kolkata after refugees arrived from East Pakistan; the landfill project was inaugurated on 16 April 1962 and its master planner was Dobrivoje Tošković. The municipality had 218,323 people at the 2011 census, the city area is given as 55.51 square kilometres, and the average elevation is 11 metres. Sector V and the Nabadiganta Industrial Township make it the main IT hub of Eastern India, with about 1,500 companies in Sector V as of 2021.