AJC Bose Road & APC Road
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Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road, earlier known as Lower Circular Road, and its continuation northwards called Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road or Upper Circular Road, is the longest and the most important north-south thoroughfare in Kolkata, India.
History
The road came up on the stretch that formed the Maratha Ditch that was dug in 1742 to protect the City from the Bargi invasions. In 1799 the ditch was filled up and the current outline of the road built. Until the 1870s, the Circular Road was considered the de facto eastern boundary of the City of Calcutta as the suburbs to its east, i.e. Manicktala, Rajabazar, Narikeldanga, Ultadanga and Beliaghata were still semi-urban semi-rural villages.
Legacy
Named after the renowned chemist Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy and the renowned physicist and botanist Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose.
Stretch and description
APC Road and AJC Bose Road taken together are the longest road in Kolkata. APC Road emerges from the Shyambazar Five-Point Crossing (Paanch mathar mor). It then passes through Khanna Crossing, Beadon Street Crossing, Manicktala Crossing, Rajabazar Crossing, MG Road Crossing, Sealdah Station and Vidyapati Flyover.
After passing Vidyapati flyover, it is known as AJC Bose Road, which passes through Moulali Crossing, Ripon Street Crossing, Elliot Rd. Crossing, Park Street Crossing, Shakespeare Sarani Crossing, Circus Avenue Crossing, Ballygunge Circular Road Crossing, Lansdowne Crossing (Minto Park), Camac Street Crossing, Lee Road Crossing, Chowringhee Crossing or Exide Crossing, Cathedral Road Crossing (Nandan and Rabindra Sadan on one side), Victoria Memorial, D L Khan Road Crossing, Alipore Road Crossing, Kolkata Race Course on one side and finishes its journey at Strand Road - Hastings Crossing. From the Point of Circus Avenue Crossing till the Victoria Memorial, the road runs below the "AJC Bose Road Flyover", which is the 2nd longest flyover and busiest flyover in the city at 2.9 km long, connecting Park Circus to Victoria Memorial.
Landmarks
- Shyambazar Five-Point
- Khanna Cinema
- Bangiya Sahitya Parishad
- Central Blood Bank
- Bose Institute
- Calcuta Deaf School
- Rajabazar Science College
- Dr. M N Chatterjee Eye Hospital & Ayurvedic College and Hospital
- Victoria Institution
- ESI Hospital
- Vidyapati flyover
- Sealdah Railway Terminus
- Nil Ratan Sarkar Medical College and Hospital
- Dr. R.Ahmed Dental College & Hospital
- Mother Teresa's Shishu Bhavan
- St James' School
- Pratt Memorial school- one of the oldest schools of Kolkata
- Mother House, Missionaries of Charity
- Roman Catholic Cemetery
- Scottish Church Cemetery
- INK
- Tulip Inn Hotel
- La Martiniere School for boys and girls
- Minto Park
- Hotel Hindustan International
- St Joseph's Home
- Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose College
- Nehru Children's Museum
- The Calcutta Club
- Nandan
- Rabindra Sadan
- Kolkata Race Course
- SSKM Hospital
- Dr. B. C. Roy Post Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences