Karunamoyee

Karunamoyee Housing Estate (Bengali করুনাময়ী হাউসিং এস্টেট) is a housing estate located in Bidhannagar, Kolkata, constructed in two phases for higher-, middle- and lower-middle-class people who wished to settle in the newly established new town of Bidhannagar (Salt Lake). It is Asia's second largest housing estate.

Karunamoyee consists of several "blocks", which are groups of apartment buildings having the same floorplan. Phase I, constructed in the seventies, consists of blocks A through D; Phase II, constructed in the eighties, consists of blocks E, F, G, H, K, L and M with Sourv Abason in ED Block, Salt Lake, under Ward no.15.

Karunamoyee crossing, located to the north of the housing estate, has become an important transport hub because of the proximity of International Bus Centre(to Bangladesh), several government and municipal office buildings, as well as Kolkata's nascent IT industry centred in Bidhannagar's "Sector V".

Karunamoyee Housing complex is having a library at E-Block " Brindaban Smriti Pathagar " eshtablished in the year 1984 by Mr. Satya Brata Nag, a retired Central Govt Officer on his own effort. As on date (April 2013) this library is having a huge collection of Books related to mainly Bengali Literature. It has a large field, named Karunamoyee Krirangan.There are Durga puja Pandals which Karunamoyee is famous for.