College Street line pandal hopping route 2026
মধ্য কলকাতা পুজো পরিক্রমা ২০২৬ · College Street line
Central Kolkata · pandal list of 18 · about 1 h 52 min walking (9.1 km) end to end
Md Ali Park, College Square and Santosh Mitra Square along Chittaranjan Ave / College St; Chorbagan on the far side. Also searched as Bowbazar, Chorbagan, Jorasanko, College Square, Md Ali Park.
This is the College Street line Durga Puja pandal list for 2026 (Puja runs 17 to 21 October) as a walkable route in central Kolkata: the famous pujas and the neighbourhood ones on the same lanes, with the nearest metro station, peak queues, a route map link, and the food and toilets on the way. The headline pandals here are Santosh Mitra Square (Lebutala Park), Md. Ali Park (Youth Association).
The order below starts at the pandal nearest a metro station (Girish Park Metro) and always walks to the closest pandal next, with walking minutes measured on OpenStreetMap streets. It is a readable default, not a plan: the planner reorders stops around your time, queues and what you want to see, and skips the ones that would not fit.
Plan tonight's College Street line routeOpen this route map in Google Maps (from Girish Park Metro; Google shows the first nine stops)
Pandal list and walking order
- 🚶 4 min · 310 m
- 🚶 2 min · 180 m
- 🚶 5 min · 420 m
- 🚶 5 min · 420 m
- 🚶 5 min · 430 m
- 🚶 8 min · 670 m
- 🚶 1 min · 50 m
- 🚶 4 min · 340 m
- 🚶 7 min · 610 m
- 🚶 18 min · 1.5 km
- 🚶 7 min · 550 m
- 🚶 11 min · 880 m
- 🚶 1 min · 80 m
- 🚶 5 min · 400 m
- 🚶 20 min · 1.7 km
- 🚶 5 min · 390 m
- 🚶 4 min · 300 m
Nearest metro stations
- Girish Park Metro: Balaram Dey Street Dutta Bari (~2 min), Narasingha Chandra Daw Bari (Vivekananda Road) (~5 min), Shibkrishna Daw Bari (Jorasanko) (~7 min), Simla Byayam Samity (~5 min)
- Mahatma Gandhi Road Metro: Chorbagan Seal Bari (~4 min), Chorbagan Sarbojanin (~6 min), Thanthania Dutta Bari (~8 min), Thanthania Laha Bari (~8 min)
- Central Metro: College Square Sarbojanin (~10 min), Pataldanga Basu Mallick Bari (~8 min), Badan Chandra Roy Bari (Colootola) (~5 min), Motilal Seal Bari (Colootola) (~6 min)
- Sealdah Metro: Halder Bari (Ramanath Kabiraj Lane) (~12 min), Ramgopal Saha Bari (Bowbazar) (~12 min), Santosh Mitra Square (Lebutala Park) (~8 min)
Food, toilets and sights in College Street line
Public toilets and water
- KMC pay-and-use toilet, 92 Baithakkhana Road · KMC pay-and-use toilet on Baithakkhana Road between Sealdah and Rajabazar; exact house no. 92 not pinned
- Pay toilet, Sealdah railway station (ground floor, north side) · Pay toilets inside Sealdah station at ground level, by platforms 20-21 (north/Sealdah North side)
- Public toilet on College Street outside Calcutta University (College Square) · Pavement toilet (with shower) on College Street in front of the University centenary building
- Public toilet, Amherst Street by Lady Dufferin Hospital · On the Amherst Street pavement beside Peshawar Masjid / Lady Dufferin Hospital, near the B.B. Ganguly St crossing
- Public toilet, Santosh Mitra Square park (Hidaram Banerjee Lane corner) · Toilet at the Santosh Mitra Square park, Hidaram Banerjee Lane side, 30 m from the pandal
- Drinking water, Sealdah station (platform 11-13 end) · Bottle-refill drinking water inside Sealdah station near platforms 11-13; another by platform 14
Where to eat and drink
- Favourite Cabin (College Street) · Tea and butter toast since 1918, where the Kallol poets and revolutionaries sat; cash only, tiny
- Basanta Cabin (College Street) · Old College Street cabin for fish kabiraji, thin Mughlai porota and aloo dum; Uttam Kumar ate here
- Bhim Chandra Nag (Bowbazar) · Ledikeni and sandesh since 1826; buy a box, no seating
- Dilkhusha Cabin (College Street) · Century-old cabin at the MG Road-College Street crossing: fish kabiraji, dimer devil, doi chicken; cabins gone since 2011, food the same
- Indian Coffee House (College Street) · The adda institution since 1942: infusion, mutton cutlet, Kabiraji; first floor of Albert Hall
- Kalika (College Street telebhaja) · Chops and telebhaja since 1965: fish chop, mochar chop, beguni; afternoons only, closed Sunday
- Niranjan Agar (Girish Park) · Fish fry, mutton cutlet and mangsho chop in a 1920s cabin beside Girish Park metro; Uttam Kumar's old haunt
- Paramount Sherbet (College Square) · Daab sherbet since 1918, the College Street cool-down; stand at the counter
- Putiram (College Street) · Kochuri with cholar dal and phulkopir shingara, sweets after; heritage shop near the College Street end of Surya Sen Street
- Royal Indian Hotel (Chitpur) · Mutton chaap and the kofta biryani since 1905, near Nakhoda Masjid; shahi tukda to finish
- Swadhin Bharat Hindu Hotel (College Square) · 1920s pice hotel on Bhawani Dutta Lane where Netaji ate; rice, dal and fish curry at lunch
Worth a look on the way
- College Square tank · The swimming tank the puja is built around: the lit reflection of the pandal and the colonnaded Calcutta University buildings is the photo everyone takes
- College Street boi para (Presidency to Coffee House) · The book-stall mile: Presidency's 1817 gate, Hindu and Hare schools, Sanskrit College and the Coffee House opposite; most stalls shut by 9 pm, the facades stay lit
- Jorasanko Thakurbari (Tagore house, Rabindra Bharati) · Rabindranath's family mansion and museum, two lanes from the Daw houses; the red courtyard is lit at night even when the museum is shut
- Marble Palace (Chorbagan) · Raja Rajendra Mullick's 1835 mansion with its marble halls, statuary and aviary, next door to the Seal house; peek at the gates and garden if you pass by day
- Nakhoda Masjid and Zakaria Street · Kolkata's biggest mosque (1926), red sandstone domes modelled on Akbar's tomb; Zakaria Street below it is the kebab-and-attar lane, best after dark
- Swami Vivekananda's ancestral house (Simla) · Vivekananda's birthplace at 3 Gour Mohan Mukherjee Street, restored as a museum; closed by evening, but the lit house and lane are worth the 100 m detour off Bidhan Sarani
- Thanthania Kalibari (Siddheshwari Kali, 1803) · The small 1803 Siddheshwari Kali temple of Shankar Ghosh on Bidhan Sarani, between the Laha and Dutta houses; a clay Kali that is remade every year
- Tiretta Bazaar Chinese breakfast (Sun Yat Sen Street) · Dawn street breakfast of old Chinatown: pork buns, momos, fish-ball soup, sticky rice on Sun Yat Sen Street from about 6 am, gone by 8; biggest on Sunday
- Vidyasagar's house (Badur Bagan) · Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's home at 36 Vidyasagar Street, where he died in 1891; now the Vidyasagar Academy, a plaque-and-facade stop beside the Sreemany house
College Street line: questions people ask
- How many pandals can I see in College Street line in one evening?
- 18 curated pandals sit within the College Street line circuit, about 1 h 52 min of walking end to end. With queues of 5 to 60 minutes at the gates on Puja evenings, four to six pandals in three hours is realistic; the planner fits the number to your time.
- Which metro station is best for College Street line?
- Girish Park Metro: Balaram Dey Street Dutta Bari is about 2 minutes' walk from it. Other stations serving the area: Mahatma Gandhi Road Metro, Central Metro, Sealdah Metro.
- Which are the famous or best pandals in College Street line?
- The famous pujas here, the ones with citywide crowds, are Santosh Mitra Square (Lebutala Park), Md. Ali Park (Youth Association). 16 more neighbourhood pujas sit along the same lanes and are usually quicker to get into.
- Is there a College Street line Durga Puja route map?
- Yes: the "Open this route map in Google Maps" link above draws the walking order from Girish Park Metro through the pandals, and the planner on the home page builds a route from wherever you are standing, fitted to the hours you have.
- Where are the public toilets in College Street line?
- KMC pay-and-use toilet, 92 Baithakkhana Road; Pay toilet, Sealdah railway station (ground floor, north side); Public toilet on College Street outside Calcutta University (College Square); Public toilet, Amherst Street by Lady Dufferin Hospital. Metro stations on the way have toilets inside the paid area.