Munsirhat is part of the Jagatballavpur

Jagatballavpur

Jagatballavpur is an administrative division in Howrah Sadar subdivision of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Jagatballavpur police station serves this block. Headquarters of this block is at Munsirhat...

 bloc in the Howrah Sadar subdivision

Howrah Sadar subdivision

Howrah Sadar subdivision , is a subdivision of the Howrah district in the state of West Bengal, India. It consists of Howrah municipal corporation and Bally municipality and five community development blocs: Bally Jagacha, Domjur, Panchla, Sankrail and Jagatballavpur. The five blocks contain 67...

 of the Howrah district

Howrah District

Howrah district is a district of the West Bengal state in eastern India. It has thousands of years of rich heritage in the form of the great Bengali kingdom of Bhurshut. The district is named after its headquarters, the city of Howrah.-Geography:...

 in the India

India

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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...

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Transport

It is a station in the Howrah–Amta

Amta

Amta I is an administrative division in Uluberia subdivision of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Amta police station serves this block...

 section of Kolkata Suburban Railway system. This area has two railway stations, Munshirhat and Mahendralalnagar. A later station is about 1 kilometre (0.621372736649807 mi) away from the main town, but near the village of Dhasa. Munsirhat is 39.57 kilometres (24.6 mi) from Howrah Station

Howrah station

Howrah Station is one of the four intercity train stations serving Howrah and Kolkata, India; the others are Sealdah Station, Shalimar Station and Kolkata railway station in Kolkata. Howrah is situated on the West bank of the Hooghly River, linked to Kolkata by the magnificent Howrah Bridge which...

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Munsirhat is on the Howrah–Amta

Amta

Amta I is an administrative division in Uluberia subdivision of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Amta police station serves this block...

bus route.

Economics

Munsirhat has about fifty units manufacturing spectacles. It is one of the markets of the district.

Culture

Sekrahati village is adjacent to the Munsirhat bus stop. There is a century old atchala temple and rasmancha in Ghoshpara in Sekrahati.