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The Indian state of West Bengal has multiple industries present in the state. The major industrial belts are Hooghly Industrial Region, Durgapur-Raniganj-Asansol Industrial Region, Haldia Industrial Region and Darjeeling-Jalpaiguri Industrial Region. Apart from these, many Industrial parks or areas are situated with planned townships.
Gorakhpur–Siliguri Expressway. Uttar Dinajpur to Siliguri. 19. 6. Planned (as of 2024) [ 5] Kharagpur-Burdwan-Moregram Expressway. EC14. Kharagpur to Moregram.
At the time of its creation in 1947, the state of West Bengal was divided into 14 districts—Bankura, Birbhum, Burdwan, Calcutta (Kolkata), Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Hooghly, Howrah, Malda, Midnapore, Murshidabad, Nadia, West Dinajpur and 24 Parganas. [ 3] Cooch Behar district was a princely state named Koch Bihar till 20 August 1949, when the ...
District wise Scheduled Tribes demographic map of West Bengal. More than half of the total ST population of the state is concentrated in Medinipur, Jalpaiguri, Purulia, and Bardhaman districts. Of the remaining districts, Bankura, Malda, Uttar Dinajpur, and Dakshin Dinajpur have sizable ST population. [3]
Varanasi–Kolkata Expressway, also known as Varanasi–Ranchi–Kolkata Expressway, and NH-319B,[ 2][ 3] is an approved 610 km (380 mi) long, six-lane, greenfield access-controlled expressway, which will connect the spiritual city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh with the capital of West Bengal, Kolkata, through the capital of Jharkhand, Ranchi. [ 4]
Website. wbpolice .gov .in. The West Bengal Police is one of the two police forces of the Indian state of West Bengal. The other being the Kolkata Police, which has a separate jurisdiction across Kolkata . The West Bengal Police was reorganized under provisions of the Police Act 1861 during the British Raj. It is headed by an officer designated ...
The East Kolkata Wetlands (officially known as East Calcutta Wetlands) (22 0 27’ N 88 0 27’ E), are a complex of natural and human-made wetlands lying east of the city of Calcutta (Kolkata), of West Bengal in India. The wetlands cover 125 square kilometres and include salt marshes, and agricultural fields, sewage farms and settling ponds.
West Bengal ( / bɛnˈɡɔːl /, Bengali: Poshchim Bongo, pronounced [ˈpoʃtʃim ˈbɔŋɡo] ⓘ, abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of 88,752 km 2 (34,267 sq mi) as of 2011. The population estimate as of 2023 is ...