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Business districts in Kolkata

Business districts in Kolkata refers to the commercial, financial or business centres or cluster of offices in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area. The Central Business District of Kolkata consists B. B. D. Bagh, Dharmatala, Park Street and Chowringhee. Due to no more land availability, the major CBD of Kolkata metropolitan area is shifting towards the east.

CBDs

The Central Business District of Kolkata consists B. B. D. Bagh, Dharmatala, Park Street and Chowringhee.

Park Street and Chowringhee

Maidan | Park Street, Camac Street, AJC Bose Road & APC Road|Wood Street, Loudon Street, Shakespeare Sarani are noted as the new CBD of Kolkata. Notable offices or business centers are:

• Tata Centre Jeevandeep
• Chatterjee International
• Everest House
• NIC former headquarters

|| 1.8 million sq. ft. (as of 2023)

B. B. D. Bagh

Kolkata's old CBD consists areas of B. B. D. Bagh, Strand Road, Esplanade, Netaji Subhas Road and Telecom Circle. The area is still considered as one of the commercial and political center of all of East India and many of the business and political institutions from the colonial era still exist. The centerpiece is the Writers' Building which is the secretariat of the Government of the State of West Bengal and houses the office of the Chief Minister of West Bengal. To the west lie the General Post Office, the Royal Insurance Building, the eastern office of the Reserve Bank of India, the headquarters of the Eastern Railway, head office of the Kolkata Port Trust and a number of other government offices. The native name of the area is "Office Para". To the north lie the Royal Exchange Building which houses the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Calcutta Stock Exchange, the Standard Chartered Building and many financial establishments. The eastern end also houses a number of offices till Chittaranjan Avenue. The south area of the square is home to the Raj Bhavan, which is now the residence of the governor and the former residence of the viceroy and governor-general of India. A number of former British colonial administrative offices, including the former foreign and military secretariats, the Treasury Office, the Telegraph Office and Kolkata Town Hall can be found here.

A view of the General Post Office in 2010

Notable offices or business centers are:

• Writers' Building
• Royal Insurance Building
• Reserve Bank of India Eastern office
• Eastern Railway headquarters
• Kolkata Port Trust headquarters
• Tea board headquarters
• SBI Eastern head office
• BCC&I head office
• Calcutta Stock Exchange
• Standard Chartered Building
• Hong Kong House
• General post office building
• Collectorate Office
• Coal Bhawan (old head office of Coal India
• Headquarters of erstwhile Allahabad Bank
• Gillander House
• Security House
• Exchange House
• McLeod House
• Marshall House

Great Eastern Hotel (Kolkata)

Notable hotels include The Great Eastern Hotel.

SBDs

Main location	Major locations in the area	Area under	Major offices/buildings	Approx. office space (Grade A)
Park Circus Connector	Park Circus Topsia	Kolkata city proper		0.7 million sq. ft. (as of 2023)
Rashbehari Connector	SBD	Kolkata city proper		1.4 million sq. ft. (as of 2023)

PBDs

Developments and new CBD of KMA

Main location	Major locations in the area	Area under	Major offices/buildings	Approx. office space (Grade A)
Salt Lake Sector-V		Kolkata metropolitan area		13 million sq. ft. (as of 2023)
New Town	New Town CBD Fintech hub New Town AA-II New Town AA-III	Kolkata metropolitan area		10 million sq. ft. (as of 2023)