Newtown @ 31

100%

master-planned

Designed before a single brick was laid

Newtown's entire master plan was drawn up by HIDCO with IIT Kharagpur before construction began. Every road, sector, water body and land use zone — planned. A rarity among Indian cities.

Source · HIDCO / IIT KGP master plan

50%

green & water · by law

Half the city is legally green

Newtown's master plan legally reserves 50% of its area for open spaces and water bodies. In most Indian cities, that number is under 20%. The green you see wasn't luck — it was law.

Source · HIDCO master plan, 2009

480

acres · Eco Park

India's largest urban park is right here

Eco Park spans 480 acres — larger than many entire townships — with a 104-acre central lake. Officially India's largest urban park.

Source · Wikipedia / WBHIDCO

40%

of Kolkata's office leasing

40% of Kolkata's office space is being leased here

Newtown-Rajarhat now accounts for 40% of all office space leased in Kolkata — more than the traditional CBD. The city's economic centre of gravity has moved east.

Source · JLL India, 2025

3.5×

growth in 24 months

Office leasing grew 3.5x in two years

From 2022 to 2024, gross office leasing in Newtown grew from 0.3 million sqft to 1.03 million sqft. That's 3.5x growth in 24 months.

Source · JLL India, 2025

6M+

sqft of IT campuses

The IT giants are voting with their wallets

Infosys (₹426Cr campus), ITC Infotech (1.45M sqft), Wipro (1.5M sqft incoming), LTI Mindtree (3.85M sqft incoming). Over 6 million sqft of IT campus space — operational or under construction — in one township.

Source · JLL / multiple

1 of 100

India Smart Cities

One of India's 100 Smart Cities

Newtown was declared a Smart City under India's Smart City Mission in May 2016 — one of only 100 cities nationally selected. Unlike most, Newtown started smart rather than retrofitting old infrastructure.

Source · HIDCO / Smart City Mission

₹5,000Cr+

annual wage economy

₹5,000+ crore annual economy

Conservative bottom-up estimate of Newtown's annual wage economy — from a township covering less than 0.05% of West Bengal's land area. Per square kilometre, it punches roughly 10x the state average.

Source · Estimated from JLL office stock data

39%

of East India's GSDP

West Bengal's economic engine is here

West Bengal holds 39% of East India's total GSDP — the dominant engine of the eastern region. Newtown is the fastest-growing economic node within that engine.

Source · KPMG East India Report

metro stations in Newtown

An Orange Line metro station now serves Newtown

The Orange Line metro — connecting southern Kolkata to the airport via Newtown — is operational and expanding. When the full corridor completes, Newtown's connectivity transforms permanently.

Source · Kolkata Metro / Wikipedia

70,000+

forum members

You are the story

New Town Forum has over 70,000 members — one of the largest township community platforms in India. 300+ messages every day. Newtown residents aren't passive. They're the most organised civic community in Bengal.

Source · New Town Forum

What 31 years actually built.