Jodhpur Park – Selimpur – Dhakuria pandal hopping route 2026
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South Kolkata · pandal list of 9 · about 1 h 13 min walking (6.1 km) end to end
95 Pally, Selimpur Pally, Babubagan; ~1.5 km south of Ekdalia. Also searched as Jodhpur Park, Dhakuria, Selimpur.
This is the Jodhpur Park – Selimpur – Dhakuria Durga Puja pandal list for 2026 (Puja runs 17 to 21 October) as a walkable route in south 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 order below starts at the pandal nearest a metro station (Rabindra Sarobar 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 Jodhpur Park – Selimpur – Dhakuria routeOpen this route map in Google Maps (from Rabindra Sarobar Metro; Google shows the first nine stops)
Pandal list and walking order
- 🚶 14 min · 1.2 km
- 🚶 4 min · 370 m
- 🚶 4 min · 340 m
- 🚶 4 min · 370 m
- 🚶 3 min · 260 m
- 🚶 11 min · 880 m
- 🚶 21 min · 1.7 km8Pally Mangal Samity (Taltala Ground)
Jodhpur Park / Prince Anwar Shah Road · theme puja · no real queue
- 🚶 12 min · 1.0 km
Nearest metro stations
- Rabindra Sarobar Metro: Lake Gardens Peoples Association (~18 min), Jodhpur Park Sarbojanin (~35 min), Selimpur Pally (~39 min), Jagaran Club (Selimpur) (~44 min)
Food, toilets and sights in Jodhpur Park – Selimpur – Dhakuria
Public toilets and water
- KMDA toilet, Rabindra Sarobar Gate No. 3 (Lake Gardens) · KMDA toilet at Rabindra Sarobar gate 3 on the Lake Gardens side, open 6 am to 8 pm; water point next to it
- South City Mall toilets (Prince Anwar Shah Road) · Clean free toilets inside South City Mall, open 10 am to 10 pm; 300 m from Pally Mangal Samity, 500 m from Jodhpur Park
- Water point, Rabindra Sarobar Gate No. 3 (Lake Gardens) · Water point beside the KMDA toilet at Rabindra Sarobar gate 3
Where to eat and drink
- Lord of the Drinks (South City Mall) · Delhi chain's double-height bar on the 4th floor of South City Mall, opposite the food court
- Dolly's The Tea Shop (Dakshinapan) · Iced tea and sandwiches in the Dakshinapan courtyard; Dolly Roy's shop since 1988
- Balaram Mullick & Radharaman Mullick (Lake Gardens) · Branch of the 1885 Bhowanipore house on Prince Anwar Shah Road: baked rosogolla, nolen gur sandesh, aam doi
- Calcutta Pi (Prince Anwar Shah Road) · Bengali comfort food just east of South City: dimer devil, gondhoraj chicken, kosha mangsho
- Hindusthan Sweets (South City Mall) · Cream rolls and sandesh from the Jadavpur chain, at the Spencer's end of South City Mall; the original shop is at the 8B bus stand
Worth a look on the way
- Dakshinapan shopping complex, Dhakuria bridge · Open-air complex of state handicraft emporia at the foot of the Dhakuria rail bridge; Dolly's Tea Shop is inside
- Durga museum 'Maa Phire Elo', Rabindra Sarobar (Lake Gardens side) · Open-air gallery of prize-winning Durga idols and pandal art from past years inside the lake park, by Lake Gardens gate 3
- Japanese Buddhist temple (Nipponzan Myohoji), Lake Road · White 1935 Japanese temple on Lake Road beside Rabindra Sarobar's Buddha Gate; monks drum the evening prayer at dusk and visitors may walk in
- Jodhpur Park lake · The tree-ringed tank in the middle of Jodhpur Park; the Jodhpur Park Sarbojanin pandal sits on its edge
Jodhpur Park – Selimpur – Dhakuria: questions people ask
- How many pandals can I see in Jodhpur Park – Selimpur – Dhakuria in one evening?
- 9 curated pandals sit within the Jodhpur Park – Selimpur – Dhakuria circuit, about 1 h 13 min of walking end to end. With queues of 5 to 20 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 Jodhpur Park – Selimpur – Dhakuria?
- Rabindra Sarobar Metro: Lake Gardens Peoples Association is about 18 minutes' walk from it.
- Which are the famous or best pandals in Jodhpur Park – Selimpur – Dhakuria?
- None of the Jodhpur Park – Selimpur – Dhakuria pandals is a citywide headline puja, which is exactly why queues here are short; Jodhpur Park Sarbojanin, Selimpur Pally, Babubagan Sarbojanin are the best known.
- Is there a Jodhpur Park – Selimpur – Dhakuria Durga Puja route map?
- Yes: the "Open this route map in Google Maps" link above draws the walking order from Rabindra Sarobar 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 Jodhpur Park – Selimpur – Dhakuria?
- KMDA toilet, Rabindra Sarobar Gate No. 3 (Lake Gardens); South City Mall toilets (Prince Anwar Shah Road). Metro stations on the way have toilets inside the paid area.