Chintamoni Kar Bird Sanctuary

Chintamoni Kar Bird Sanctuary also known as CKBS (Narendrapur, 24Pgs(South), West Bengal,India) situated at south Kolkata and near Narendrapur Ramkrishna Mission. This is also known as Kayal-r Bagan. This place is famous for the place for birds. This garden is famous for availability of wide variety of birds, butterflies, ferns and orchids.

This is an 'Abhay Aranya, or Sanctuary, originally given the status in year 1982. Govt. of West Bengal took the initiative to make it open to the public and acquired it from private owners in October 2005 at quite a price. The area was notified as Narendrapur Wildlife Sanctuary vide G O No.3019-FOR dated 8 September 2004. It was later renamed as Chintamani Kar Bird Sanctuary vide G.O No.4300-FOR/FR/O/L/6C-3/04 dated 21.10.2005. This was an honour to celebrated sculptor Chintamoni Kar, who had for many years fought relentlessly to gain the status 'Kayaler Bagan' for the sanctuary.