Nalhati is a town, municipality

Municipality

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 in Birbhum District

Birbhum District

Birbhum district is an administrative unit in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the northernmost district of Burdwan division—one of the three administrative divisions of West Bengal. The district headquarters is located at Suri...

 in the India

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n state

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 of West Bengal

West Bengal

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 near the West Bengal

West Bengal

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 / Jharkhand

Jharkhand

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 border. This town is named after the Shakti peetha

Shakti Peethas

The Shakti Pithas are places of worship consecrated to the goddess Shakti or Parvati or Sati or Durga, the female principal of Hinduism and the main deity of the Shakta sect...

Nalhateshwari temple, which according to the mythologies is the situated where the "nala" i.e. throat of goddess Shakti

Shakti

Shakti from Sanskrit shak - "to be able," meaning sacred force or empowerment, is the primordial cosmic energy and represents the dynamic forces that are thought to move through the entire universe in Hinduism. Shakti is the concept, or personification, of divine feminine creative power, sometimes...

 had fallen. It is one of the 51 Shakti Peethas

Shakti Peethas

The Shakti Pithas are places of worship consecrated to the goddess Shakti or Parvati or Sati or Durga, the female principal of Hinduism and the main deity of the Shakta sect...

in India.

Nahlati is a junction railway station where the Ajimgunj line joins the old Howrah—Sahebganj

Sahebganj

Sahebganj is the district headquarters of Sahebganj district of Jharkhand state, India.Sahebganj means a place of masters . The place is likely to have gotten its name because a number of English and other European people lived and worked in and around the railway station during the British Raj...

 loop of the eastern railway.

Nalhati police station under Rampurhat subdivision of Birbhum district looks after two administrative blocks Nalhati I

Nalhati I (community development block)

Nalhati I is an administrative division in Rampurhat subdivision of Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Nalhati police station serves this block...

 and Nalhati II

Nalhati II (community development block)

Nalhati II is an administrative division in Rampurhat subdivision of Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Nalhati police station serves this block...

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Nalhati municipality was established in 2000.

Geography

Nalhati is located at 24.3°N 87.82°E. It has an average elevation of 48 metres (160 feet). It is on the Chhotonagpur plateau. A small portion of hill with very low altitude can be visible within the town. On the hill the Nalateswari temple and Ana Baba Mazar Sherif are two tourist interests. The soil of this part of Birbhum resembles that of Bankura and Purulia as "Lalmatir Desh" (land of red soil).

It is on Panagarh–Morgram Highway

Panagarh–Morgram Highway

Panagarh–Morgram Highway runs from the junction with NH 2 at Panagarh Darjeeling Mor to NH 34 at Morgram. It passes through Kanksa, Ilambazar, Hetampur, Dubrajpur, Suri, Rampurhat, Nalhati and Lohapur. It is mostly a two lane highway with a total length of...

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Places of Interests

Nalhati is a tourist spot in West Bengal and is being promoted lately by the state government. It is healthy place to live for its pollution free environment. The Nalateswari Temple and Mazar Sherif atop the small hill is a must see of this town. Many interesting sights on the hill are no longer visible for growing urbanization. The Baidhara Shalbon at the Brahmani river delta and Chandramani hills near Bautia are nice place to go for a 15 km distance. There is good connectivity to Jharkhand, Bihar, North Bengal and south Bengal.

Located on the Chhotonagpur plateau, Nalhati is the source for good quality stone chips to South Bengal as there is a crasher belt near the town.