Jai Hind metro station
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Jai Hind (also referred to as Biman Bandar) is an underground metro station of Yellow Line of Kolkata Metro in Dum Dum, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.[1][2] It is the largest underground metro station in India serving the city of Kolkata's main airport, the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.[3] The station was inaugurated on 22 August 2025.[4][5][6] The station will be a future interchange when it hosts Orange Line of Kolkata Metro till Kavi Subhash.[7][8]
History
Construction
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The execution of this project has been entrusted to RVNL and the construction of the station-cum-yard is being done by ITD Cementation India Ltd. The old Kolkata Circular Railway Biman Bandar railway station was demolished and repurposed for this project. The tentative deadline is December 2021.[9]
Delays
The work has been delayed for years due to multiple issues. At first AAI objected the station above the ground, stating that this could be a threat for air traffic. Many underground utilities, power sub-station and water treatment plant had to be shifted. Encroachments and Land acquisition problems held up the project for multiple times.[10][11]
Features
This station will also have a stabling yard, and it will be the largest underground facility of India, and city's first. It will be 550m long and 41.6m wide, and will facilitate stabling and reversal of rakes, but it will not be a carshed.[12] Previously the station was planned elevated, but after objection from AAI, the route was reworked and the station was planned underground from Airport to New Barrackpore.[13]
Facilities
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As of April 2019, the station is planned to be around 150m away from the terminal building.[14] It will be connected via subways which will be having moving walkways.[14]
Interchanges
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Here, Yellow and Orange Lines will meet. There will be 5 tracks, two for Yellow Line, two for Orange Line, one of which is for terminating and departing both Noapara and Barasat bound trains and one for the yard.
Station Layout
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Station with five tracks, two island and one side platforms
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| G | Street level | Beautified Garden, Exit/Entrance, Lift to Concourse |
| C | Concourse | Ticket Counters,Station Control Room, Metro Card vending machines, Automatic Fare collection gates |
| P | Side platform | Doors will open on the left 
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| Platform 1 Northbound |
Towards → Barasat next station is Birati → | |
| Platform 2 Southbound |
Towards ← Noapara next station is Jessore Road ← | |
| Island platform | P2 & P3 doors will open on the left
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| Platform 3 Northbound |
Orange Line Train Terminates Here → Change to Yellow Line for Barasat or Noapara | |
| Platform 4 Southbound |
Towards ← Kavi Subhash next station is VIP Road ← | |
| Island platform | P4 & P5 doors will open on the left
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| Platform 5 | For emergency use | |
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Entry/Exits
Entry/Exit 1: For Airport Terminal 1& 2 Building and Airport Bus Stand
Entry/Exit 2: Airport Taxi Stand
Entry/Exits 3: Metro Railway Office and Old Bimanbandar Railway Station
Entry/Exit 4: Airport Police Station
Entry/Exit 5: Airport Gate 2½, Near Jessore Road
Entry Exit 6&7: Planned
Connections
Road
A large number of buses ply via Jessore Rd and VIP Road are as follows:
- AC 39 (Airport Terminal - Howrah Stn.)[15]
- VS 2 (Airport Terminal - Howrah Stn.)[16]
- V1 (Airport Terminal - Tollygunge)[17]
- VS 1 (Airport Terminal - Esplanade)[18]
- AC 37C (Airport Terminal - Garia)[19]
- AC 37A (Airport Terminal - Garia)[20]
- AC 43 (Airport Terminal - Golf Green)[21]
- AC 38 (Dum Dum 11A - Karunamoyee)
- S10 (Airport Gate no 3 - Nabanna)
- D-10 (Barasat - Amtala)
- AC 37 (Barasat - Garia)
- EB-12 (Barasat - Karunamoyee)
- ACT-4 (Barasat - Karunamoyee)
- ACT-23 (Park Circus - Dankuni)
- AC 23A (Rajchandrapur - Karunamoyee)
- AC 50A (Rajchandrapur - Garia)
- S23A (Rajchandrapur - Karunamoyee)
- AC 2 (Barasat - Howrah Stn)
- S 64 (Naihati - Newtown)
- S 66 (Choto Finga - Howrah Stn)
- D-1A (Airport - Tollygunge)
- 30B (Gouripur - Babughat)
- 223 (B.T College - Golf Green)
- 237 (Birati - Babughat)
- 45 (Airport - Garia Stn.)
- 45A (Airport - Garia Stn.)
- 46 (Airport - Esplanade)
- L238 (Barasat - Howrah Stn.)
- 79B (Barasat - Bagbazar)
- DN-8 (Barasat - Salt Lake Sector V)
- 93 (Kharibari - Bagbazar)
- 79D (Madhyamgram - Babughat)
- S-151 Mini (Airport - B.B.D Bag)
- S-184 Mini (Birati - B.B.D Bag)
- S-175 Mini (New Barrackpore - Howrah Stn.)
- AC 40 (Airport - Howrah Maidan)
- C-42 (Barasat - Howrah)
- C-23 (Dankuni - Park Circus)
- DN-47 (Barasat - Karunamoyee)
- DN-18 (Baduria - Shyambazar)
- 91 (Bhangar - Shyambazar)
- 91A (Harao Banstala - Shyambazar)
- Barasat - Botanical Garden Bus
- Barasat - Baruipur Bus
- Rajchandrapur - Karunamoyee Bus
- Airport 1 no. Gate - Amta Bus etc.
Rail
Previously Eastern Railway operated Suburban Railway services (Kolkata Circular Railway) up to here. Currently the nearest stations are Dum Dum Cantonment railway station and Durganagar railway station.[22][23]
Air
The station itself serves the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport.[10][24]
See also
References
- ^ "Kolkata Metro's new yellow line links city to the airport". cntraveller. 19 August 2025.
- ^ "Kolkata's Yellow Line Opens Doors To Culture, History, And Connectivity". outlooktraveller. 22 August 2025. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "Kolkata Awaits Inauguration Of India's Largest Underground Metro Yard On August 22". etvbharat. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "PM Modi Inaugurates 3 New Metro Sections of Kolkata Metro". Metro Rail News. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "'Historic gift before Durga Puja': PM Modi to inaugurate 3 Kolkata metro projects on Aug 22". Deccan Herald. 15 August 2025.
- ^ "Kolkata Metro's Yellow Line to Become the First to Connect with the Airport". Metro Rail News. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
- ^ "Kolkata Metro Orange Line nears airport link with 24 stations". Urban Acres. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "New System Map of Kolkata Metro".
- ^ "Times of India". timesofindia.com. Archived from the original on 11 December 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
- ^ a b "Work gets going on Metro's airport station".
- ^ Gupta, Jayanta (15 February 2017). "New Garia: Metro terminal station plan at New Garia back on track". The Times of India. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- ^ "Airport Metro yard to be country's largest underground facility". Times of India. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ "বিমানবন্দর- নিউ ব্যারাকপুর মেট্রো ছুটবে মাটির নীচ দিয়ে, প্রকল্প নিয়ে কাটল জট". Asianet News. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ a b Mandal, Sanjay (21 April 2019). "Metro hub 150m from Calcutta airport". The Telegraph (India). Retrieved 15 May 2020.
- ^ "AC 39 Bus Route". YouFindGo. Retrieved 22 August 2025.
- ^ "VS 2 Bus timing details". Airports Authority of India. Retrieved 22 August 2025.
- ^ "V1 Bus timing details". Airports Authority of India. Retrieved 22 August 2025.
- ^ "VS 1 Bus timing details". Airports Authority of India. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
- ^ "List of Government buses operated by WBTC". KBOP. Retrieved 3 February 2026.
- ^ "AC 37A Bus Route". YouFindGo. Retrieved 22 August 2025.
- ^ "AC 43 Bus Route". YouFindGo. Retrieved 22 August 2025.
- ^ "DDC/Dum Dum Cantonment". India Rail Info. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
- ^ "DGNR/Durganagar". India Rail Info. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
- ^ "Metro link to airport on railway radar". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
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