Kalyani, West Bengal
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Kalyani is a city and a municipality
in Nadia district
in the India
n state
of West Bengal
. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority
.
It is a planned town and an important centre of education. It can be considered a 'university town' with two universities and many colleges. The Kalyani Municipality received the best municipality award in 2004 along with the Durgapur Municipality of Burdwan district and Ingrejbajar Municipality of Malda district.. Another feather in Kalyani's cap was added when it won the prestigious award of Best Municipality in India,in the year 2009.
In 1950 this town was built in a short time in order to host the Indian National Congress
meeting. This planned town owes its existence and development to the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy
. Kalyani is often referred to as his daughter.
Block A: Divided into several sectors namely A 1,2,5,7,8,9,10,11,12 and is mostly Residential with commerial market in A-2 & Near the Kalyani Main Railway station.
Block B: Development in Kalyani started from here. Residential as well as mixed use patterns remains. Also houses the Central Park, Kalyani Main Post Office, Kalyani Town Club, Industrial Training Institute and the Public Library
Block C: Institutional use in this block. Largely occupied by the Kalyani University.
Block D: Fully Industrial zone but only partly occupied
Kalyani, is perhaps the best managed town in the whole of Nadia district. With its underground drainage systems, well built tree lined avenues and lush green parks, neat roads intersecting each other at 90 degree, it certainly emerges as a clean and green town. It has a big stadium conducting both football and cricket matches. There are four railway stations here - Kalyani, Kalyani Silpanchal, Kalyani Ghoshpara and Kalyani Simanta. This is the only industrial township in Nadia district.
Kalyani has very quickly registered itself as a self-sufficient township. Its gradual development continued as a notified area. In 1995, it was upgraded to a municipality. It is a sub divisional town in the district of Nadia
If these issues are addressed right now, large developers still see a chance on this piece of land called Kalyani.
Almost 3rd. of Kalyani's 9000 developed plots till remains vacant even after 54 years after the township was constructed. Rapid transist system and land transfer constraints are impeding Kalyani's growth. With intended population of 2 lakhs kalyani population in built up areas is only about 70000 till date because of above mentioned constraints.
, Kalyani has a population of 100,620. Males constitute 50.55% of the population and females 49%. Kalyani has an average literacy rate of 88.75%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 92.79%, and female literacy is 84.65%. In Kalyani, 7.55% of the population is under 6 years of age. The sex ratio of Kalyani is 978. As per 2001 Census, the average household size of Kalyani is approximately 4.61. Percentage of main workers out of total population is 29%.
Kalyani residents are a varied lot. Doctors, teachers, education, management and engineering professionals are all represented in large numbers. Government officers, Army personnel and other service professionals find Kalyani an attractive town to make their homes. A number of distinguished personalities stay here too.
College of Medicine & JNM Hospital
,a newly established medical college is situated here.
This town has several schools. Among Bengali medium schools are Kalyani University Experimental High School, Pannalal Institution and Bidhan Memorial Girls High School. Kalyani Central Model School(CBSE), Springdale High School(WB) and Julien Day School(ICSE) are the best known among the English medium ones.
Kalyani Foundation for Media Science & Community research is a premiere institute of learning. The institute offers Post Graduate Diploma in Mass Communication & Videography. They also research upon Visual Culture and Social Upliftment.
Department of Environmental Science, University of Kalyani was established as a School under recommendation of UGC in 1985. Since then, this department is offering M.Sc, M.Phil and Research Programmes.
Environmental Science is a multidisciplinary subject and keeping with this fact, this small Department has six permanent Faculty Members with diverse research areas - from Biodiversity, Ecology, Geology, Atmospheric Science, Pollution Chemistry up to Cell signalling & Toxicology. The Department has six well developed specialised and one general laboratories all of which are aimed towards continual improvement.
The faculties undertake consultancies and projects in collaboration with Industry.
This Department is an ENVIS Centre on Environmental Biotechnology (MoEF Supported) since 2002 and also a part of Sustainable Development Network Programme (SDNP) since the year 2005.
Thus, education, research, networking and industry-institute relationship - all of these factors are taken care of in the Department of Environmental Science, University of Kalyani.
This small department has an Alumni Organisation - KUESAA (Kalyani University Env Science Alumni Association). This organisation is a repository of the Professional Environmentalists.
http://kgec.edu.in, established in 1995, has been ranked 3rd best among engineering colleges in West Bengal. It offers B.Tech, M.Tech and M.C.A degree programmes under the West Bengal University of Technology. Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics, Mechanical and Electrical engineering departments of this college are accredited by the National Board of Accreditation. In the last few years after its establishment most of its alumni spread over world's top MNCs, like Intel, Cadence Design Systems
, ST Microelectronics, Motorola
, Qualcomm
, Texas Instruments
, IS
to name a few and Indian companies and public sector units like IBM
, Infosys
, TCS
, Wipro
, Satyam, HCL
, Tech Mahindra
, CTS
, BHEL, ABB, ALSTOM
, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
, DAE
, DSP
, BSNL, ISRO, HP, ONGC, IOC, DRDO, Reliance
, Tata Elxsi
to name a few. Besides this some students of this college are also in some prestigious institutes like IITs, IIMs, ISI
University of British Columbia
, Michigan State University
, Oregon State University
, Frankfurt University, Indian Institute of Science
and many more for higher studies. Prof(Dr) Krishnendu Chakraborty is the principal of this college.
The college is equipped well in terms of modern laboratory, workshop and computational facilities. However as is the general trend all over in Indian educational institutes, paucity of teachers is affecting the growth of the college.
In August, 2006, this college signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with India's biggest software company TCS
for academic development of students, faculty members and staff. Sprawled across the campus of Kalyani University, the college campus is well connected by LAN and also uses wireless technology for high speed net connectivity among the five hostels- Raja Rammohan Roy Hall(New Hall), Vidyasagar Chhatrabas, Rishi Bankim Chandra Hall, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy Hall and Pritilata Chhatrinivas. The college is also equipped with an Astronomical Observatory.
Kalyani also now has a Medical College called Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College.After establishing the Law college the importance of kalyani increase a lot.Thanks law college from Arindam Chattopadhyay.
The school is located at A-10 School Area, Kalyani, Nadia .
The school was founded by Mr. and Mrs. Broughton in Kolkata and is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (ICSE), New Delhi. The medium of instruction is English. Bengali and Hindi are the vernacular subjects.The school presently, has four branches. The four branches are in Kolkata (Elgin Road), Ganganagar, Kalyani and a more recent branch in Howrah which presently is upto class 10.The school anthem is 'Julien Day School's children are we' set to the tune of the national anthem of Germany. The badge of the school bears a quote of Sir Francis Bacon 'Knowledge is power'.
There are well known doctor's chambers located in kalyani.
Gandhi Memorial Hospital is best known for heart Surgery, located near Kalyani main railway station.
ESI HOSPITAL is located opposite to J.N.M hospital.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in Nadia district
Nadia District
Nadia district is a district of the state of West Bengal, in the north east of India. It borders with Bangladesh to the east, North 24 Parganas and Hooghly districts to the south, Bardhaman district to the west, and Murshidabad district to the north....
in the India
India
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n state
States and territories of India
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of West Bengal
West Bengal
West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority
Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority
Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority is the statutory planning and development authority for the Kolkata Metropolitan Area in the state of West Bengal, India. The organisation was previously known as Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority and still retains the previous logo...
.
It is a planned town and an important centre of education. It can be considered a 'university town' with two universities and many colleges. The Kalyani Municipality received the best municipality award in 2004 along with the Durgapur Municipality of Burdwan district and Ingrejbajar Municipality of Malda district.. Another feather in Kalyani's cap was added when it won the prestigious award of Best Municipality in India,in the year 2009.
History
Kalyani, located in Nadia district in the state of West Bengal, is a relatively young town. During the Second World War, Kalyani, was the site of a military airbase. Hangars and other reminders of the air-field are still visible in the 'A' Block and some areas around Kalyani University, whose buildings were built on or over the runways.In 1950 this town was built in a short time in order to host the Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...
meeting. This planned town owes its existence and development to the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy
Bidhan Chandra Roy
Bidhan Chandra Roy, M.R.C.P., F.R.C.S. was the second Chief Minister of West Bengal in India. He remained in his post for 14 years as a Indian National Congress candidate, from 1948 until his death in 1962. He was a highly respected physician and a renowned freedom fighter...
. Kalyani is often referred to as his daughter.
Geography
The town itself is physically divided into 4 blocks:Block A: Divided into several sectors namely A 1,2,5,7,8,9,10,11,12 and is mostly Residential with commerial market in A-2 & Near the Kalyani Main Railway station.
Block B: Development in Kalyani started from here. Residential as well as mixed use patterns remains. Also houses the Central Park, Kalyani Main Post Office, Kalyani Town Club, Industrial Training Institute and the Public Library
Block C: Institutional use in this block. Largely occupied by the Kalyani University.
Block D: Fully Industrial zone but only partly occupied
Kalyani, is perhaps the best managed town in the whole of Nadia district. With its underground drainage systems, well built tree lined avenues and lush green parks, neat roads intersecting each other at 90 degree, it certainly emerges as a clean and green town. It has a big stadium conducting both football and cricket matches. There are four railway stations here - Kalyani, Kalyani Silpanchal, Kalyani Ghoshpara and Kalyani Simanta. This is the only industrial township in Nadia district.
Kalyani has very quickly registered itself as a self-sufficient township. Its gradual development continued as a notified area. In 1995, it was upgraded to a municipality. It is a sub divisional town in the district of Nadia
Economy
Despite many efforts from the Government and its associated bodies, Kalyani remains below its neighbouring towns in terms of economic strengths and growth. The reasons for this could include:- basic issues of housing and social infrastructure have not been addressed
- public funds have not attracted further private funding and projects
- entrepreneurship is needed
- human resources and talent pool have relocated to other places like KolkataKolkataKolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
If these issues are addressed right now, large developers still see a chance on this piece of land called Kalyani.
Almost 3rd. of Kalyani's 9000 developed plots till remains vacant even after 54 years after the township was constructed. Rapid transist system and land transfer constraints are impeding Kalyani's growth. With intended population of 2 lakhs kalyani population in built up areas is only about 70000 till date because of above mentioned constraints.
Demographics
As of 2011 India censusCensus
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
, Kalyani has a population of 100,620. Males constitute 50.55% of the population and females 49%. Kalyani has an average literacy rate of 88.75%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 92.79%, and female literacy is 84.65%. In Kalyani, 7.55% of the population is under 6 years of age. The sex ratio of Kalyani is 978. As per 2001 Census, the average household size of Kalyani is approximately 4.61. Percentage of main workers out of total population is 29%.
Kalyani residents are a varied lot. Doctors, teachers, education, management and engineering professionals are all represented in large numbers. Government officers, Army personnel and other service professionals find Kalyani an attractive town to make their homes. A number of distinguished personalities stay here too.
Education
Kalyani has two universities - Kalyani University and Bidhan Chandra University Of Agriculture. It is also the proposed site for West Bengal University of Technology and the prestigious Indian institute of science education and research have approved in kalyani.The new S.K. Acharya Institute of Law has begun functioning in the campus of Kalyani University. In the field of legal education S.K. Acharya Institute of Law is renowned name.College of Medicine & JNM Hospital
College of Medicine & JNM Hospital
- Location :Address: JNM Hospital Road, KalyaniNadia741235West Bengal, IndiaPIN Code: 741 235Co-ordinate: 22.98N & 88.48 ENearest Railway Station: Kalyani Silpanchal under Eastern Railway;Nearest Metro Station: DumDum...
,a newly established medical college is situated here.
This town has several schools. Among Bengali medium schools are Kalyani University Experimental High School, Pannalal Institution and Bidhan Memorial Girls High School. Kalyani Central Model School(CBSE), Springdale High School(WB) and Julien Day School(ICSE) are the best known among the English medium ones.
Kalyani Foundation for Media Science & Community research is a premiere institute of learning. The institute offers Post Graduate Diploma in Mass Communication & Videography. They also research upon Visual Culture and Social Upliftment.
Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science
Website of the DepartmentDepartment of Environmental Science, University of Kalyani was established as a School under recommendation of UGC in 1985. Since then, this department is offering M.Sc, M.Phil and Research Programmes.
Environmental Science is a multidisciplinary subject and keeping with this fact, this small Department has six permanent Faculty Members with diverse research areas - from Biodiversity, Ecology, Geology, Atmospheric Science, Pollution Chemistry up to Cell signalling & Toxicology. The Department has six well developed specialised and one general laboratories all of which are aimed towards continual improvement.
The faculties undertake consultancies and projects in collaboration with Industry.
This Department is an ENVIS Centre on Environmental Biotechnology (MoEF Supported) since 2002 and also a part of Sustainable Development Network Programme (SDNP) since the year 2005.
Thus, education, research, networking and industry-institute relationship - all of these factors are taken care of in the Department of Environmental Science, University of Kalyani.
This small department has an Alumni Organisation - KUESAA (Kalyani University Env Science Alumni Association). This organisation is a repository of the Professional Environmentalists.
Kalyani Government Engineering College
Kalyani Government Engineering CollegeKalyani Government Engineering College
Kalyani Government Engineering College , in Kalyani, West Bengal, India offers undergraduate and postgraduate engineering degree courses under West Bengal University of Technology...
http://kgec.edu.in, established in 1995, has been ranked 3rd best among engineering colleges in West Bengal. It offers B.Tech, M.Tech and M.C.A degree programmes under the West Bengal University of Technology. Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics, Mechanical and Electrical engineering departments of this college are accredited by the National Board of Accreditation. In the last few years after its establishment most of its alumni spread over world's top MNCs, like Intel, Cadence Design Systems
Cadence Design Systems
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, ST Microelectronics, Motorola
Motorola
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, Qualcomm
Qualcomm
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, Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments
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, IS
IS
-Language and words:Words formed from the letters "is" include:*"is", the third form of the verb "to be" at present tense, in the English language. For copulative usage see Copula...
to name a few and Indian companies and public sector units like IBM
IBM
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, Infosys
Infosys
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, TCS
Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services Limited is a global IT services, business solutions and outsourcing company headquartered in Mumbai, India. It is the largest provider of information technology in Asia and second largest provider of business process outsourcing services in India...
, Wipro
Wipro
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, Satyam, HCL
HCL
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, Tech Mahindra
Tech Mahindra
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, CTS
CTS
- Television :* Chinese Television System, a Taiwanese broadcast television station.**CTS Main Channel ** CTS Education and Culture ** CTS Recreation ** CTS News...
, BHEL, ABB, ALSTOM
Alstom
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, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
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, DAE
DAE
DAE may mean:* Daporijo Airport, the IATA code for the airport in India* Department of Atomic Energy , an Indian government department responsible for administration of India's nuclear programme...
, DSP
DSP
- Computing :* Digital signal processing, the study and implementation of signals in digital computing and their processing methods* Digital signal processor, a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing...
, BSNL, ISRO, HP, ONGC, IOC, DRDO, Reliance
Reliance
-Companies:* Reliance Industries, an Indian conglomerate of companies headed by Mukesh Ambani** Reliance Petroleum** Reliance Life Sciences** Reliance Solar** Reliance Logistics** Reliance Industrial Infrastructure** Reliance Institute of Life Sciences...
, Tata Elxsi
Tata elxsi
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to name a few. Besides this some students of this college are also in some prestigious institutes like IITs, IIMs, ISI
Indian Statistical Institute
Indian Statistical Institute is a public research institute and university in Kolkata's northern outskirt of Baranagar, India founded by Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in 1931...
University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia
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, Michigan State University
Michigan State University
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, Oregon State University
Oregon State University
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, Frankfurt University, Indian Institute of Science
Indian Institute of Science
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and many more for higher studies. Prof(Dr) Krishnendu Chakraborty is the principal of this college.
The college is equipped well in terms of modern laboratory, workshop and computational facilities. However as is the general trend all over in Indian educational institutes, paucity of teachers is affecting the growth of the college.
In August, 2006, this college signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with India's biggest software company TCS
Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services Limited is a global IT services, business solutions and outsourcing company headquartered in Mumbai, India. It is the largest provider of information technology in Asia and second largest provider of business process outsourcing services in India...
for academic development of students, faculty members and staff. Sprawled across the campus of Kalyani University, the college campus is well connected by LAN and also uses wireless technology for high speed net connectivity among the five hostels- Raja Rammohan Roy Hall(New Hall), Vidyasagar Chhatrabas, Rishi Bankim Chandra Hall, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy Hall and Pritilata Chhatrinivas. The college is also equipped with an Astronomical Observatory.
Snehangshu Kanta Acharya Institute of Law
SKAIL offers B.A., LL.B. (Honours) 5-year integrated degree programme as the principal under-graduate degree programme in law. It contemplates to introduce LL.M. degree programme and the Ph. D. degree programme in Law from the academic year 2009-2010.Kalyani also now has a Medical College called Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College.After establishing the Law college the importance of kalyani increase a lot.Thanks law college from Arindam Chattopadhyay.
Julien Day School, Kalyani
Julien Day School (JDS) is a co-educational primary, secondary and senior secondary school in Kalyani, District-Nadia, West Bengal, India.The school is located at A-10 School Area, Kalyani, Nadia .
The school was founded by Mr. and Mrs. Broughton in Kolkata and is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (ICSE), New Delhi. The medium of instruction is English. Bengali and Hindi are the vernacular subjects.The school presently, has four branches. The four branches are in Kolkata (Elgin Road), Ganganagar, Kalyani and a more recent branch in Howrah which presently is upto class 10.The school anthem is 'Julien Day School's children are we' set to the tune of the national anthem of Germany. The badge of the school bears a quote of Sir Francis Bacon 'Knowledge is power'.
Medical Facility
Kalyani has good medical facilities. There are hospitals as well as nursing homes situated in Kalyani.There are well known doctor's chambers located in kalyani.
Hospital
This city has three hospitals with best medical facility.One of the most important one is J.N.M HOSPITAL. It is also known as 500 bed, located near Kalyani Silpanchal Railway station.Gandhi Memorial Hospital is best known for heart Surgery, located near Kalyani main railway station.
ESI HOSPITAL is located opposite to J.N.M hospital.