What is it?
Welcome to the portal of swimming in Kolkata. The dedicated website for the sole purpose just as the name suggests, all the aquatic activities and related news as well as events associated to the swimming clubs in Kolkata. Particularly, if you already have some of the very common tedious experiences of finding the commonly ascertained information like the contact of the concerned swimming clubs in order to get enrolled there for a course or wanted the same for someone else, then in that case this portal would turn out to be a great help for you for the this time. And from the perspective of the retrospection about the swimming culture of this city of joy, one would also find this website to be helpful as it contains a little about the history and the related relevant information associated to the noted swimming pools and institutions in Kolkata.
A little about the Swimming Culture of Kolkata
Now as the word history has been said, a little briefing about the character of the swimming culture in Kolkata over the years could be not something out of the topic here. As it is well known as a game of sports, swimming was never perceived as the game having same status with that of cricket, football and even of some non physical games like chess in India and thus sharing the same fate for Kolkata too. In addition to that games like chess has also have been found to be popular and thus having more sponsors and consequently supported by more enthusiasm. Here though it might seem that something is stated in exaggerated way but truly speaking, it is something what the situation have been till some days back in the sports culture of India as well as West Bengal and for even now too the situation particularly in the case of swimming in Kolkata is not experiencing much considerable betterment than what it was.
But the words of hope are that somehow swimming related interest and enthusiasm has been found to be increasing through the last decade in comparison to what it was about the year 2005, a decade back. To substantiate this fact one might be shown to the number of swimming pools in Kolkata which have come up in the last ten years of span and specially to the comparison of the number of swimming pools, those were there back then.
This considerable increase in the number of swimming pools in kolkata is not only comprising of the pools that have been opened in form of some coaching centers or clubs but also consisting of the pools which are exclusive to some housing complexes. And this might be reckoned as a matter of hope that the aquatic culture is spreading over gradually in terms of the involvements and people are more getting interested in making their children learn swimming nowadays in Kolkata. This in turn might be a reason of making many schools schedule some mandatory classes on swimming along with the regular academic and sports curriculum like Shri Shikshayatan Scool , La Martiniere Scool Delhi Public School and many more. Whatever might be the cause and the its concomitant effect, the matter of concern is that the swimming in Kolkata and its culture is progressing in some way with making people more interested and involving.
Why this concept of web repository about Kolkata's Swimming?
But the point now that comes is that the impossibility in searching for the so far said swimming clubs in Kolkata or the swimming classes in kolkata and thereby getting to know about them how they would be suitable according to ones requirement, whatever kind of it might be. Even if one would have the impression that searching through web must be a way in any case, that is not going to be the case for lack of such available coherent resources there and thus the only remaining option is to individually search for the swimming clubs and pools in Kolkata by going respectively there in person. This again is something one must acknowledge, not a good idea at all.
About swimming!
By the way, the most surprising fact is that there are too many swimming clubs in the Kolkata one might know or not but the major common problem that is associated to all of them is the quality of water. To be more precise, the fact is caused by the low quality water and in addition to that the unaccounted chlorination in that water to make that a bit eligible for swimming. And this could be an astonishing fact to you if you are not familiar with the culture of swimming in Kolkata by anyway that how a swimming pool would not be having water which is not distilled up to the desired and hygienic level, but in that case one can say you that this is what the aquatic culture of Kolkata, be it something unfortunate or pathetic, this is what it is. Anyway, nowadays there are a number of swimming clubs that are inaugurated in Kolkata with its own water purifying and pumping facilities, but the story about most of the old and noted ones is remaining to be the same. Though one must note that many swimming pools are adopting to or planning to adopt to the standardization of the swimming pool water.
The Swimming Clubs
East-central kolkata:
Among the other characteristics one would easily find that except the Swimming clubs in Kolkata that are situated in proper city, the pools are mostly in general adjacent to some water bodies like lake or even river or having pools with associated purifying cum pumping system. If one asks for some examples, then the examples of the college square (also known as ‘Gol Dighi’) at college street may be cited which is comprising of College Square Swimming Club, Young Men Christian Association swimming section (YMCA), Bowbazar Bayam Samity, Self Culture Institution majorly along with the tank of Hedua (Azad Hind Baag) near star theater, Bidhan Sarani which is comprising of mainly Central Swimming Club and National Swimming Club(also known as Vivekananda National Swimming Association).
These clubs can be said to be existing in the heart of the city Kolkata as well and when one searches for the most popular and well speculated swimming classes in Kolkata(proper), mostly these institutions are found as the preferred options. The thing that is common to all of these mentioned swimming clubs in kolkata is the fact that they are water filled by Kolkata Municipal Corporation by pulling water from the river Ganges. But for the case of college square water tank, the water is being drained off at the time of winter, particularly from the month of October to March. And except this time duration water is available for swimming for all the other time. In this specific case, Hedua tank got some difference as one would find water even in winter there for swimming.
North kolkata:
Among the other swimming clubs in Kolkata, one might find Vidyasagar Swimming Coaching centre situated near Raja Bazar area, whose water is also controlled by the KMC. Again in the northern part of Kolkata there is Ahiritola Youth Swimming Club situated at the bank of Ganges,near Shyambazar which is much renowned in the domain of swimming in Kolkata since its establishment in the year 1885. This swimming club has also considerable contribution to the bitching culture of Kolkata as well. But primarily this swimming club used to utilize the water of Ganges for the swimming purpose and thus for now, as the water of Ganges in that part is not proper for swimming, the club is presently have ceased providing membership for swimming.
South Kolkata:
Now after covering the north-central kolkata coming gradually towards the territory of Kolkata one would also not get disappointed as there are a number of swimming options for south Calcutta as well as in near the area of Dalhousi , Esplanade etc. One would find The Calcutta swimming club at stand road beside Hooghly river(Ganges), the prestigious swimming institution and the oldest among all the swimming clubs in Kolkata too. There are Calcutta Swimming Association and Indian Life Saving Society (Formerly known as Anderson Club) situated at Golpark adjacent to the Dhakuria lake, formally known as Rabindra Sarobar. For the Calcutta swimming club, one should remember its old rich history and its contributions to the culture of swimming in Kolkata. This club though situated near the bank of of the river Ganges, have a separate dedicated pool and its maintaining facility. This club is having some aiding from the British people and thus have recently developed a lot of extra additional facility including the hydraulic multi-gym, bars, game rooms, guest houses and a lot more luxurious services in addition to that. But the admission procedure here in this swimming club is somewhat different. there is no formal admission here for the general public. To be more clear to get member of this Calcutta Swimming club one must need to furnish at least two referrals of the existing members of the swimming club and along with that there is a time constrain also. one can not just get enrolled with two or more referrals of the existing member but the club announces some membership window time, when one can apply for the membership and the formal procedure follows in that way. Obviously it is nothing but to sustain the elitism among the members of the club.
East Kolkata:
Coming to the easter part of our city, there is Subhash Sarobar Swimming Pool near saltlake stadium at kadapara within the territory of the subhash sarobar (lake) itself. But the distinctive thing is that for this Subhash Sarobar Swimming Pool, the main pool has merely any connection to the adjacent lake but that is not the case with the Calcutta Swimming Association and Indian Life Saving Society with Rabindra Sarobar. The swimming pools there are connected to the adjacent lake’s water (ILSS has a seperate pool though) and thus the water quality in the Subhash Sarobar Swimming Pool is much better. Though the swimming lessons given at the two clubs associated to the Rabindra Sarobar are of some preferences in general and in addition to that ILSS also provides life saving certification courses. Now, inside the territory of salt lake, there is Bidhannagar Swimming Association, which is better known as BF block swimming pool, even there is a bus stop naming swimming pool near BF block naming after that pool. This pool is decent one but the fee is a little high comparatively here but the swimming lesson provided is with much care for novice children and adults. Then there comes the Lake town swimming Pool which is situated at laketown, near kalindi, dumdum. This swimming pool in Kolkata is having some no problem in water as it has some dedicated pumping and maintaining facility along with the pool.
And apart from all these major swimming clubs in Kolkata, there are a number of other swimming pools in Kolkata whose further details can be found while navigating through the other pages of this portals. Though this is not the end, as mostly all of the hotels and resorts of Kolkata have come up with their attached swimming pool facility and such pools are not in a ignorable number but the problem majorly is the charge they use to take as the membership for letting avail one their pools though if one wants to assure the water quality and wants a decent swimming experience, one can always opt for such pools which might turn out to be better than other swimming classes in Kolkata. And nowadays in these swimming pools of Kolkata, dedicated swimming instructors can be found whose help one can take always along with the life savers.
So there are a lot of choices while one is trying to explore through the swimming in the city Kolkata and it would have been wiser to know most of them prior to decide to go for a particular swimming club or pool in Kolkata. For, the last words, be safe while you swim, never ignore the precautionary measures and enjoy happy swimming.
Welcome to the portal of swimming in Kolkata. The dedicated website for the sole purpose just as the name suggests, all the aquatic activities and related news as well as events associated to the swimming clubs in Kolkata. Particularly, if you already have some of the very common tedious experiences of finding the commonly ascertained information like the contact of the concerned swimming clubs in order to get enrolled there for a course or wanted the same for someone else, then in that case this portal would turn out to be a great help for you for the this time. And from the perspective of the retrospection about the swimming culture of this city of joy, one would also find this website to be helpful as it contains a little about the history and the related relevant information associated to the noted swimming pools and institutions in Kolkata.
A little about the Swimming Culture of Kolkata
Now as the word history has been said, a little briefing about the character of the swimming culture in Kolkata over the years could be not something out of the topic here. As it is well known as a game of sports, swimming was never perceived as the game having same status with that of cricket, football and even of some non physical games like chess in India and thus sharing the same fate for Kolkata too. In addition to that games like chess has also have been found to be popular and thus having more sponsors and consequently supported by more enthusiasm. Here though it might seem that something is stated in exaggerated way but truly speaking, it is something what the situation have been till some days back in the sports culture of India as well as West Bengal and for even now too the situation particularly in the case of swimming in Kolkata is not experiencing much considerable betterment than what it was.
But the words of hope are that somehow swimming related interest and enthusiasm has been found to be increasing through the last decade in comparison to what it was about the year 2005, a decade back. To substantiate this fact one might be shown to the number of swimming pools in Kolkata which have come up in the last ten years of span and specially to the comparison of the number of swimming pools, those were there back then.
This considerable increase in the number of swimming pools in kolkata is not only comprising of the pools that have been opened in form of some coaching centers or clubs but also consisting of the pools which are exclusive to some housing complexes. And this might be reckoned as a matter of hope that the aquatic culture is spreading over gradually in terms of the involvements and people are more getting interested in making their children learn swimming nowadays in Kolkata. This in turn might be a reason of making many schools schedule some mandatory classes on swimming along with the regular academic and sports curriculum like Shri Shikshayatan Scool , La Martiniere Scool Delhi Public School and many more. Whatever might be the cause and the its concomitant effect, the matter of concern is that the swimming in Kolkata and its culture is progressing in some way with making people more interested and involving.
Why this concept of web repository about Kolkata's Swimming?
But the point now that comes is that the impossibility in searching for the so far said swimming clubs in Kolkata or the swimming classes in kolkata and thereby getting to know about them how they would be suitable according to ones requirement, whatever kind of it might be. Even if one would have the impression that searching through web must be a way in any case, that is not going to be the case for lack of such available coherent resources there and thus the only remaining option is to individually search for the swimming clubs and pools in Kolkata by going respectively there in person. This again is something one must acknowledge, not a good idea at all.
About swimming!
By the way, the most surprising fact is that there are too many swimming clubs in the Kolkata one might know or not but the major common problem that is associated to all of them is the quality of water. To be more precise, the fact is caused by the low quality water and in addition to that the unaccounted chlorination in that water to make that a bit eligible for swimming. And this could be an astonishing fact to you if you are not familiar with the culture of swimming in Kolkata by anyway that how a swimming pool would not be having water which is not distilled up to the desired and hygienic level, but in that case one can say you that this is what the aquatic culture of Kolkata, be it something unfortunate or pathetic, this is what it is. Anyway, nowadays there are a number of swimming clubs that are inaugurated in Kolkata with its own water purifying and pumping facilities, but the story about most of the old and noted ones is remaining to be the same. Though one must note that many swimming pools are adopting to or planning to adopt to the standardization of the swimming pool water.
The Swimming Clubs
East-central kolkata:
Among the other characteristics one would easily find that except the Swimming clubs in Kolkata that are situated in proper city, the pools are mostly in general adjacent to some water bodies like lake or even river or having pools with associated purifying cum pumping system. If one asks for some examples, then the examples of the college square (also known as ‘Gol Dighi’) at college street may be cited which is comprising of College Square Swimming Club, Young Men Christian Association swimming section (YMCA), Bowbazar Bayam Samity, Self Culture Institution majorly along with the tank of Hedua (Azad Hind Baag) near star theater, Bidhan Sarani which is comprising of mainly Central Swimming Club and National Swimming Club(also known as Vivekananda National Swimming Association).
These clubs can be said to be existing in the heart of the city Kolkata as well and when one searches for the most popular and well speculated swimming classes in Kolkata(proper), mostly these institutions are found as the preferred options. The thing that is common to all of these mentioned swimming clubs in kolkata is the fact that they are water filled by Kolkata Municipal Corporation by pulling water from the river Ganges. But for the case of college square water tank, the water is being drained off at the time of winter, particularly from the month of October to March. And except this time duration water is available for swimming for all the other time. In this specific case, Hedua tank got some difference as one would find water even in winter there for swimming.
North kolkata:
Among the other swimming clubs in Kolkata, one might find Vidyasagar Swimming Coaching centre situated near Raja Bazar area, whose water is also controlled by the KMC. Again in the northern part of Kolkata there is Ahiritola Youth Swimming Club situated at the bank of Ganges,near Shyambazar which is much renowned in the domain of swimming in Kolkata since its establishment in the year 1885. This swimming club has also considerable contribution to the bitching culture of Kolkata as well. But primarily this swimming club used to utilize the water of Ganges for the swimming purpose and thus for now, as the water of Ganges in that part is not proper for swimming, the club is presently have ceased providing membership for swimming.
South Kolkata:
Now after covering the north-central kolkata coming gradually towards the territory of Kolkata one would also not get disappointed as there are a number of swimming options for south Calcutta as well as in near the area of Dalhousi , Esplanade etc. One would find The Calcutta swimming club at stand road beside Hooghly river(Ganges), the prestigious swimming institution and the oldest among all the swimming clubs in Kolkata too. There are Calcutta Swimming Association and Indian Life Saving Society (Formerly known as Anderson Club) situated at Golpark adjacent to the Dhakuria lake, formally known as Rabindra Sarobar. For the Calcutta swimming club, one should remember its old rich history and its contributions to the culture of swimming in Kolkata. This club though situated near the bank of of the river Ganges, have a separate dedicated pool and its maintaining facility. This club is having some aiding from the British people and thus have recently developed a lot of extra additional facility including the hydraulic multi-gym, bars, game rooms, guest houses and a lot more luxurious services in addition to that. But the admission procedure here in this swimming club is somewhat different. there is no formal admission here for the general public. To be more clear to get member of this Calcutta Swimming club one must need to furnish at least two referrals of the existing members of the swimming club and along with that there is a time constrain also. one can not just get enrolled with two or more referrals of the existing member but the club announces some membership window time, when one can apply for the membership and the formal procedure follows in that way. Obviously it is nothing but to sustain the elitism among the members of the club.
East Kolkata:
Coming to the easter part of our city, there is Subhash Sarobar Swimming Pool near saltlake stadium at kadapara within the territory of the subhash sarobar (lake) itself. But the distinctive thing is that for this Subhash Sarobar Swimming Pool, the main pool has merely any connection to the adjacent lake but that is not the case with the Calcutta Swimming Association and Indian Life Saving Society with Rabindra Sarobar. The swimming pools there are connected to the adjacent lake’s water (ILSS has a seperate pool though) and thus the water quality in the Subhash Sarobar Swimming Pool is much better. Though the swimming lessons given at the two clubs associated to the Rabindra Sarobar are of some preferences in general and in addition to that ILSS also provides life saving certification courses. Now, inside the territory of salt lake, there is Bidhannagar Swimming Association, which is better known as BF block swimming pool, even there is a bus stop naming swimming pool near BF block naming after that pool. This pool is decent one but the fee is a little high comparatively here but the swimming lesson provided is with much care for novice children and adults. Then there comes the Lake town swimming Pool which is situated at laketown, near kalindi, dumdum. This swimming pool in Kolkata is having some no problem in water as it has some dedicated pumping and maintaining facility along with the pool.
And apart from all these major swimming clubs in Kolkata, there are a number of other swimming pools in Kolkata whose further details can be found while navigating through the other pages of this portals. Though this is not the end, as mostly all of the hotels and resorts of Kolkata have come up with their attached swimming pool facility and such pools are not in a ignorable number but the problem majorly is the charge they use to take as the membership for letting avail one their pools though if one wants to assure the water quality and wants a decent swimming experience, one can always opt for such pools which might turn out to be better than other swimming classes in Kolkata. And nowadays in these swimming pools of Kolkata, dedicated swimming instructors can be found whose help one can take always along with the life savers.
So there are a lot of choices while one is trying to explore through the swimming in the city Kolkata and it would have been wiser to know most of them prior to decide to go for a particular swimming club or pool in Kolkata. For, the last words, be safe while you swim, never ignore the precautionary measures and enjoy happy swimming.