AJC Bose Road & APC Road

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AJC Bose Road & APC Road

APC Road, near Bose Institute towards Shyambazar, Kolkata
Former name(s)	Lower Circular Road & Upper Circular Road
Maintained by	Kolkata Municipal Corporation
Location	Kolkata, India
Nearest Kolkata Metro station	Shyambazar, Sealdah, Rabindra Sadan and Victoria (under construction)
Coordinates	22°35′50″N 88°22′29″E / 22.597225°N 88.374834°E / 22.597225; 88.374834

Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road (earlier known as Lower Circular Road) and its continuation northwards called Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road (earlier known as Upper Circular Road), are together the longest and the most important north-south thoroughfare in Kolkata, India.

History

The road came upon the stretch that formed the Maratha Ditch that was dug in 1742 to protect the City from the Bargi invasions.^[1] 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

Stretch and description

APC Road and AJC Bose Road taken together is the longest road in Kolkata. APC Road emerges from the

From

Landmarks

• Shyambazar, Five-Point Crossing
• Khanna Cinema
• Bangiya Sahitya Parishad
• Central Blood Bank
• Rammohan Library
• Bose Institute
• Calcuta Deaf School
• Rajabazar Science College
• Dr. M N Chatterjee Eye Hospital & Ayurvedic College and Hospital
• Victoria Institution
• Sealdah ESI Hospital
• Vidyapati Flyover
• Sealdah Station
• Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital
• Dr. R. Ahmed Dental College and Hospital
• Mother Teresa's Shishu Bhavan
• St James' School
• Pratt Memorial school- one of the oldest schools of Kolkata
• Mother House, Missionaries of Charity
• Lower Circular Road cemetery
• Institute of Neurosciences Kolkata
• Tulip Inn
  Hotel
• La Martiniere School
  for boys and girls
• Minto Park (Shaheed Bhagat Singh Udyan)
• 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
• The Frank Anthony Public School, Kolkata

Gallery

• 
  Institute of Neurosciences, Kolkata at the crossing of Park Street and AJC Bose Road
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  Jora Girja (St. James' Church) on AJC Bose Road
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  Shaheed Bhagat Singh Udyan (Minto Park) on AJC Bose Road
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  Diamond Prestige, an office block on AJC Bose Road, houses a 'Jaguar' showroom
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  Ideal Center on AJC Bose Road, houses an 'Audi' showroom
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  Kolkata Police Training School (PTS) on AJC Bose Road

References

External links

• The sounds of A.J.C. Bose Road in Kolkata. The size of audio file is 3 Mb.