Madhyamgram
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Madhyamgram is a small town in the district of North 24 Parganas within the Indian state of West Bengal
and suburban of Metropolitan City Kolkata
, having Calcutta (Kolkata
) postal code and telephone zone (33). It is under the jurisdiction of Barasat
sadar subdivision within the limit of Barasat and Airport police stations and under the local jurisdiction of Madhyamgram Municipality. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority
.
On 20 December 1757 Mirzafar, the Nawab of Bengal presented twenty four parganas to East India Company as dowry which also included Madhyamgram,under Anwarpur Pargana adjacent to Barasat.
The first Railway line from Madhyamgram to Duttapurkur was commissioned in 1882 when the station was called Chandipur and Madhyamgram was then named as Majher Gaon, probably because the area was situated between Badu (Chakradharpur Mouza) and Sajirhat (Guchuria Mouza).
The present narrow Noai Canal now acting as dividing border line between New Barrackpore and Madhyamgram stretching from the South of Ganganagar to Sajirhat in the West was actually a wide river, once called Labanyabati which through colloquial transformation became Noai river and after years of silt depositions it turned into Noai Canal.
At that time Anwarpur Pargana was famous for tobacco trade and a special sweet smelling blended tobacco was manufactured in Madhyamgram.
Over and above Madhyamgram was also a big paddy growing area and Labanya river was a medium of navigation for export of those products. Besides, Madhyamgram was also famous for fine and beautiful embroidery works and those gratifying beauty was getting appreciation from Kolkata, even Delhi and Mumbai. Many Muslim families used to maintain livelihood through those works.
In this way of historical evolution and step by step development planning we got the present day Madhyamgram.
—early June to mid September. The weather remains dry during the winter (mid-November to mid-February) and humid during summer.
Temperature :41 °C in May(Max) and 9 °C in January(Min)
Relative Humidity: Between 50% in March & 90% in July
, Madhyamgram had a population of 155,503. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Madhyamgram has an average literacy rate of 76%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 80%, and female literacy is 71%. In Madhyamgram, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.
There is a major textile
mill and a rubber
factory. The business of the city centres around retailing, though there are dealers who supply mainly to the rest of the district. Madhyamgram also hosts an integrated computer hardware and software development unit. However, the major occupation of its residents is service. The proximity to Kolkata helps residents commute daily to Kolkata.
The major advance of Madhyamgram is the transportation facility with Road mode and the Local Railway Section. Literally, you can find any bus route direct or connecting from Madhyamgram to and for Kolkata and bordering towns and villages to Bangladesh.
. The latter, though territorially in the New Barrackpur
municipality, has a close relationship with Madhyamgram, especially in student composition. The two most famous schools are Madhyamgram High School and Madhyamgram Girls High School. The popular English medium schools are Julien Day School, in Ganganagar and Sudhir Memorial Institute, near Doltala, St. Judes Higher Secondry School at Basu Nagar. There are also an Engineering and a management college.Camellia Institute of Technology and Camellia School Of Business Management here.
There's also Acharya Prafulla Chandra Girls High School & Acharya Prafulla Chandra Boys High School.
There are two Football coaching camps -
one, in Ward no. 19 at Pallishree playground, started function on and from 12.06.05, and the other, in Ward no. 7 at Basunagar playground, started function on and from 18-9-05 which are organised and managed by the Madhyamgram Municipality.
Several number of playground and parks are there where all kinds of outdoor games are being organized.
There is one swimming in Pool one in Sukanta Sayar at Ward no. 4 where veteran Coaches are involved for coaching the children all over the year.
Table tennis
star Mouma Das
belongs to Madhyamgram.
Football players Madhusudan Majumder and Tapan Maiti belong to Madhyamgram.
North 24 Parganas district has been identified as one of the areas where ground water is affected by arsenic contamination
. There are two major Hospitals and many Health centres in Madhaymgram.
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...
and suburban of Metropolitan City Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , 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...
, having Calcutta (Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , 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...
) postal code and telephone zone (33). It is under the jurisdiction of Barasat
Barasat
Barasat is a city in the outskirts of Kolkata, West Bengal India and is the district head quarter of the district North 24 Parganas. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. The town is an important railway and roadway junction...
sadar subdivision within the limit of Barasat and Airport police stations and under the local jurisdiction of Madhyamgram Municipality. 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...
.
History
History of Madhyamgram is the history of flourishment and downfall. Madhyamgram was in the Kingdom of Raja Protapaditya Roy, one of the twelve feudal provinces of Bengal and Ruler of Jessore during the Mughal regime.On 20 December 1757 Mirzafar, the Nawab of Bengal presented twenty four parganas to East India Company as dowry which also included Madhyamgram,under Anwarpur Pargana adjacent to Barasat.
The first Railway line from Madhyamgram to Duttapurkur was commissioned in 1882 when the station was called Chandipur and Madhyamgram was then named as Majher Gaon, probably because the area was situated between Badu (Chakradharpur Mouza) and Sajirhat (Guchuria Mouza).
The present narrow Noai Canal now acting as dividing border line between New Barrackpore and Madhyamgram stretching from the South of Ganganagar to Sajirhat in the West was actually a wide river, once called Labanyabati which through colloquial transformation became Noai river and after years of silt depositions it turned into Noai Canal.
At that time Anwarpur Pargana was famous for tobacco trade and a special sweet smelling blended tobacco was manufactured in Madhyamgram.
Over and above Madhyamgram was also a big paddy growing area and Labanya river was a medium of navigation for export of those products. Besides, Madhyamgram was also famous for fine and beautiful embroidery works and those gratifying beauty was getting appreciation from Kolkata, even Delhi and Mumbai. Many Muslim families used to maintain livelihood through those works.
In this way of historical evolution and step by step development planning we got the present day Madhyamgram.
Climate
The climate is tropical, like the rest of the Gangetic West Bengal. The hallmark is the MonsoonMonsoon
Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea...
—early June to mid September. The weather remains dry during the winter (mid-November to mid-February) and humid during summer.
Temperature :41 °C in May(Max) and 9 °C in January(Min)
Relative Humidity: Between 50% in March & 90% in July
Demographics
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...
, Madhyamgram had a population of 155,503. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Madhyamgram has an average literacy rate of 76%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 80%, and female literacy is 71%. In Madhyamgram, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Economy
Textile
A textile or cloth is a flexible woven material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by spinning raw fibres of wool, flax, cotton, or other material to produce long strands...
mill and a rubber
Rubber
Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, is an elastomer that was originally derived from latex, a milky colloid produced by some plants. The plants would be ‘tapped’, that is, an incision made into the bark of the tree and the sticky, milk colored latex sap collected and refined...
factory. The business of the city centres around retailing, though there are dealers who supply mainly to the rest of the district. Madhyamgram also hosts an integrated computer hardware and software development unit. However, the major occupation of its residents is service. The proximity to Kolkata helps residents commute daily to Kolkata.
The major advance of Madhyamgram is the transportation facility with Road mode and the Local Railway Section. Literally, you can find any bus route direct or connecting from Madhyamgram to and for Kolkata and bordering towns and villages to Bangladesh.
Banking
Most of the Banks and ATM in Madhayamgram are located on Sodepur Road. Allhabad Bank, Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, ICICI BANK, Indusind Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Punjab National Bank, State Bank of India, UCO Bank, United Bank of India, Central Bank of India, Union Bank ,Bank of Baroda,ICICI Bank as well as Vijaya Bank opened their branches and ATMs in Madhyamgram.Education
Even being a comparatively smaller town, Madhyamgram boasts a number of secondary and higher secondary schools and two graduate colleges, namely, the Vivekananda College and the Acharya Prafulla Chandra CollegeAcharya Prafulla Chandra College
Acharya Prafulla Chandra College, established in 1960, is a co-educational Government sponsored degree college located in West Bengal, India. Until 2007 the college was affiliated with the University of Calcutta, now it is affiliated with the newly established West Bengal State...
. The latter, though territorially in the New Barrackpur
New Barrackpur
New Barrackpur is a town and a municipality under Ghola police station of Barrackpore subdivision. in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.-Geography:...
municipality, has a close relationship with Madhyamgram, especially in student composition. The two most famous schools are Madhyamgram High School and Madhyamgram Girls High School. The popular English medium schools are Julien Day School, in Ganganagar and Sudhir Memorial Institute, near Doltala, St. Judes Higher Secondry School at Basu Nagar. There are also an Engineering and a management college.Camellia Institute of Technology and Camellia School Of Business Management here.
There's also Acharya Prafulla Chandra Girls High School & Acharya Prafulla Chandra Boys High School.
Sports
Madhyamgram High School is famous for winning the Subrata Cup, all-India inter-school soccer competition, a record number of times. There are quite a few footballers who hail from Madhyamgram.There are two Football coaching camps -
one, in Ward no. 19 at Pallishree playground, started function on and from 12.06.05, and the other, in Ward no. 7 at Basunagar playground, started function on and from 18-9-05 which are organised and managed by the Madhyamgram Municipality.
Several number of playground and parks are there where all kinds of outdoor games are being organized.
There is one swimming in Pool one in Sukanta Sayar at Ward no. 4 where veteran Coaches are involved for coaching the children all over the year.
Table tennis
Table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
star Mouma Das
Mouma Das
Mouma Das is a table-tennis player from West Bengal, India. She has won the National Table-tennis Championship for two consecutive years . She was born and brought up in Madhyamgram, a suburb near Calcutta.-External links:**...
belongs to Madhyamgram.
Football players Madhusudan Majumder and Tapan Maiti belong to Madhyamgram.
Healthcare
Madhyamgram municipality hospital is providing a good health care at a very less cost.It has a good infrastructure for proper treatment.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...
. There are two major Hospitals and many Health centres in Madhaymgram.