Kona, a locality on the western edge of Howrah, is one of the addresses where Shapoorji Pallonji Real Estate (SPRE) has chosen to build rather than simply market. The developer's project here, Shapoorji Codename Home Next, sits on the Grand Trunk Road, a location that keeps it connected to major areas of the city. It is a ready-to-move development, which means the site already carries the day-to-day proof of the group's construction standards rather than only brochures and renders.
Shapoorji Pallonji Real Estate is the residential development arm of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group, a Mumbai-headquartered conglomerate founded as Littlewood Pallonji in 1865. The parent organisation delivers end-to-end solutions across six business segments, including engineering and construction, infrastructure, real estate, water, energy and financial services, through a workforce of over 37,000 people in more than 40 countries. That engineering lineage is not incidental to how the group talks about its housing business: the group's approach is engineering before architecture, and the company is known for building some of Mumbai's landmarks around the Fort area, including the Reserve Bank of India building and the Bombay Stock Exchange building. In Kolkata, this history translates into a developer that arrived in Howrah with the scale to plan townships rather than standalone towers, and Kona is one of the localities where that scale shows up on the ground.
Spread over 30 acres, Shapoorji Codename Home Next offers 3,424 units across 1 BHK and 2 BHK configurations, ranging from 600 sq ft to 1,300 sq ft. The project is located on the Grand Trunk Road in Howrah, Kolkata. Amenities on site include indoor games, a swimming pool, a gymnasium, a clubhouse, health facilities, car parking, fire safety, backup electricity, a multi-purpose hall, security and round-the-clock water supply. The project's ready-to-move status in a locality still dominated by independent homes and builder floors is itself a marker of how SPRE's township-scale approach differs from the smaller, city-based development typical of Kona.
Kona sits within the same Howrah corridor that carries the developer's other Kolkata-area addresses. The developer of these projects is the Shapoorji Pallonji Group, and as a significant part of the 155-year-old conglomerate, SPRE has built a solid foundation in top cities like Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune and Kolkata, with projects ranging from luxury apartments to aspirational homes. A short distance away, near Santragachi and Salap, the group operates Joyville Howrah, a community of over 800 families that is one of the largest occupied gated developments in Howrah, with nearly 75 per cent of its masterplan dedicated to open and green spaces. The same stretch has since seen the group add row houses through Shapoorji Pallonji One Estate, spread across 8 acres with 180 premium row houses, and mid-rise apartments through Joyville Western Heights. Prominent suburbs of Howrah are close by to Kona, with several schools, hospitals, banks and offices situated in the proximity. For a buyer evaluating the developer's presence in this part of Kolkata, Kona and the Santragachi–Salap belt effectively function as one continuous SPRE footprint along the Grand Trunk Road and Kona Expressway axis.
Kona's own geography explains why SPRE has anchored a large-format project here. The locality sits at the junctional point of major roads including State Highway 15, the Chennai-Kolkata Highway, GT Road and Makardah Road, and has a dedicated railway station on the Santragachi-Amta branch line of the Kolkata Suburban Railway. Kona carries the pincode 711114 and lies near Bankra, Salap and Ramrajtala. The Kona Expressway, which gives the locality its name, is a section of NH 12: it acts as an important link to Kolkata, connecting National Highway 16 near Nibra to Vidyasagar Setu near Shibpur via Santragachi, and is one of the most important entries to Kolkata. As of November 2022, the road carried more than 70,000 vehicles a day. The corridor is also being upgraded: the foundation stone for a 7.2 km elevated corridor was laid on August 22, 2025, as part of an INR 5,200 crore infrastructure push for Kolkata. On the rail side, Howrah is now connected to the Green Line metro, with the East-West Metro running through the Hooghly river tunnel toward Howrah Maidan, and survey work is underway for a further extension. KMRCL has been planning a second round of survey for a new metro route running Howrah Maidan-Shalimar-Santragachi-Dankuni-Chandannagar, with the Howrah Maidan-Santragachi section already approved. For anyone buying into an SPRE address in Kona, this combination of a highway junction, a suburban rail halt, and an expanding metro corridor is the connectivity backbone the project sits on.
Kona's day-to-day infrastructure is built around this same road-and-rail junction. Hospitals such as Kona Jagadishpur Rural Hospital, Bankra Hospital and S.C. Bagchi Arogya Sadan are located in and around the area. Bankra Super Market, Bankra Hazi Market and Avani Riverside Mall meet the day-to-day needs of residents, the locality is near tourist spots such as Belur Math, the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden and Santragachi Jheel, and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport is about 22 km away via NH-12. On pricing, the wider Howrah market remains comparatively accessible against central Kolkata: the average property rate in Howrah is approximately ₹3,803 per sq ft, with prices ranging from ₹1,000 to ₹18,750 per sq ft, catering to both mid and high-income groups. Howrah, Serampore, Andul and Shibpur are counted among the upscale housing hubs in this belt, offering properties starting around ₹3,500 per sq ft. That combination of relative affordability and improving connectivity is a core reason branded developers have moved into this stretch of Howrah, and it is the backdrop against which a ready-to-move, 30-acre SPRE project in Kona is positioned for both end-users and long-term investors.
