Gobardanga is a town and a municipality

Municipality

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 under Habra

Habra

Habra is a city, a municipality and a police station of Barasat sadar subdivision in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is an administrative subdivision. Habra is situated on the Jessore Road between Kolkata and the Bangladesh border at Petrapole...

 police station of Barasat sadar subdivision

Barasat Sadar subdivision

Barasat Sadar subdivision , is a subdivision of the North 24 Parganas district in the state of West Bengal, India. It consists of six municipalities and seven community development blocks: Barasat–I, Barasat–II, Amdanga, Deganga, Habra–I, Habra–II and Rajarhat...

 in North 24 Parganas district

North 24 Parganas district

North 24 Parganas district is a district in southern West Bengal, of eastern India. North 24 Parganas extends in the [tropical zone] from latitude 22º11'6" north to 23º15'2" north and from longitude 88º20' east to 89º5' east...

 in the India

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 of West Bengal

West Bengal

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. It is one of the oldest municipality of West Bengal. Go means 'world/earth', Bar means 'Greatest' and Danga means 'Place'. i.e. "Gobardanga" means "the greatest place on earth".

History

It has strong historic background from the pre-independence era, i.e. jamindar bari, oxebow lake, site of probably the first widow marriage & Brhama samaj in modern India.
Gobardanga is also known as The Village of Theatre. It has almost 12 theatre groups. Gobardanga Naksha one of the oldest leading reportary theatre company since 1981.

Geography

Gobardanga is located at 22.87°N 88.76°E. It has an average elevation of 6 metres (19 feet).

It is 58 km from Sealdah Station on the Sealdah-Bangaon

Bangaon

Bongaon is a city and a municipality in North 24 Parganas district in the state of West Bengal, India. Bongaon is headquarters of Bongaon subdivision.- Geography :...

 branch line of Eastern Railway

Eastern Railway (India)

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kamala stores is the oldest book store in gobardanga

Demographics

India census

Census

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, Gobardanga had a population of 41,618. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Gobardanga has an average literacy rate of 80%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 84%, and female literacy is 75%. In Gobardanga, 9% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Education

There are several renowned schools in this town. Gobardanga Khantura High School (1856) is one of the oldest high schools in modern India. It has a College named Gobardanga Hindu College along with Hostel.

Is currently posted in Hyderabad, Ramoji Film City.'Pravati abbriti charcha kendra'organised by Subir Chattopadhaya. Gobardanga is an only one cultural location in this District. Many genius person contributed their own activities. social reformer srish chandra bidyaratna, Novelist prabhabati devi saraswati, hasirashi devi, Usha Prasanna Mukhopadhyaya, Artist Samir Ghosh, Artist Chira Ranjan Roy, Artist Bhaskar Mondal, Geologist Pramathanath Basu and many other persons. Nitai Ghatak,who was one of the best friend of Kajee Najrul and he created many melody of Najrul's songs.

Healthcare

North 24 Parganas district has been identified as one of the areas where ground water is affected by arsenic contamination

Arsenic contamination of groundwater

Arsenic contamination of groundwater is a natural occurring high concentration of arsenic in deeper levels of groundwater, which became a high-profile problem in recent years due to the use of deep tubewells for water supply in the Ganges Delta, causing serious arsenic poisoning to large numbers of...

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Nitai Ghatak,who was one of the best friend of Kajee Najrul and he created many melody of Najrul's songs.
not only this..it has a beautiful location along with beautiful nature.