Bidhan Nagar or Salt Lake City as it is popularly called, is a planned satellite township in the Indian state of West Bengal. The township was named Bidhannagar in the honour of Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy.
On 16 April 1962, the Salt Lake City was officially born.The original planner of Bidhannagar was a Yugoslav named Dobrivojo Toscovic. The development of the area was done in "Sectors". The plots were classified as residential, residential (shop-allowable), commercial, institutional and industrial. Then came up the industrial Sectors IV and V (the location of the IT industries). The Sector IV contains Nicco Park (erstwhile Jhilmill) — the first amusement park of eastern India with 40 acres (160,000 m2) of land and the Nalban Boating Complex and so also the under-privileged area of Sukantanagar, the space apparently created for the rehabilitation of the displaced persons of Duttabad due to the construction of the Salt Lake Stadium in consultation with the Lutheran World Service.
On 16 April 1962, the Salt Lake City was officially born.The original planner of Bidhannagar was a Yugoslav named Dobrivojo Toscovic.
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