Nadia district is a district in the state of West Bengal, in eastern India. It borders Bangladesh to the east, North 24 Parganas and Hooghly districts to the south, Purba Bardhaman to the west, and Murshidabad to the north.
Education
University
Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya
Kalyani University
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata
(Moulana Abul Kalam Azad University of technology)
College
Karimpur Pannadevi College, Karimpur
Srikrishna College, Bagula
Sudhiranjan Lahiri Mahavidyalaya, Majdia
Santipur College, Santipur
Ranaghat College, Ranaghat
Ranaghat Government Polytechnic, Ranaghat
Nabadwip Vidyasagar College, Nabadwip
Krishnagar Government College, Krishnanagar
Krishnagar Women's College, Krishnanagar
Haringhata Mahavidyalaya, Haringhata
Dwijendralal College, Krishnanagar
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar College, Betai
Chakdaha College, Chakdaha
Plassey College, Plassey
Pritilata Waddedar Mahavidyalaya, Panikhali
Bipradas Pal Chowdhury Institute of Technology, Krishnanagar
Asannagar Madan Mohan Tarkalankar College, Nadia
Bethuadahari College, Bethuadahari
Chapra Bangaljhi Mahavidyalaya, Chapra
Chapra Government College, Chapra
Muragacha Government College, Muragacha
Kalyani Mahavidyalaya, Kalyani
Kalyani Government Engineering College, Kalyani
College of Medicine & JNM Hospital, Kalyani
Private College
Global Institute of Management and Technology, Krishnanagar
JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani
Ideal Institute of Engineering, Kalyani
Transport
Rail
Nabadwip Dham is 65 km from Bandel, 105 km from Howrah and 112 km from Sealdah on the Bandel-Katwa-Azimganj (B.A.K Loop Line) section of Eastern Railway. It has three Railway Stations as Nabadwip Dham railway station (NDAE), Bishnupriya (VSPR) of Howrah Division and Nabadwip Ghat (NDF) of Sealdah Division.
Krishnanagar City Junction is 100 km from Sealdah on the Sealdah-Lalgola Section of Eastern Railway.
Kalinarayanpur Junction is 78 km from Sealdah on the Sealdha-Lalgola section of Eastern Railway.
Ranaghat Junction is 74 km from Sealdah on the Sealdah-Lalgola Section of Eastern Railway.
Notable people
Dwijendralal Ray, poet, playwright and lyricist
Ramtanu Lahiri, social reformer
Bagha Jatin, Bengali revolutionary
Soumitra Chatterjee, Actor, dramatist
Lalon Shah, Sufi saint, philosopher, social reformer
Sudhir Chakraborty, educator
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, Athlete
Soma Biswas, Athlete
Jhulan Goswami, Cricketer
Hemanta Kumar Sarkar, philologist, author, leader of freedom Movement
Subhash Mukhopadhyay, poet
Dr. Sudhir Chakraborty, Educationist and Essayist
Basanta Singha Roy, mountaineer, climbed Mount Everest in 2010.
Administrative subdivisions
The district comprises four subdivisions: Krishnanagar Sadar, Kalyani, Ranaghat and Tehatta. Krishnanagar Sadar subdivision consists of Krishnanagar municipality, Nabadwip municipality and seven community development blocks: Kaliganj, Nakashipara, Chapra, Krishnanagar–I, Krishnanagar–II, Nabadwip and Krishnaganj. Kalyani subdivision consists of Chakdaha municipality, Gayespur municipality, Kalyani municipality and 3 community development blocks: Kalyani, Chakdaha and Haringhata. Ranaghat subdivision consists of Shantipur municipality, Ranaghat municipality, Birnagar municipality and four community development blocks: Hanskhali, Shantipur, Ranaghat–I and Ranaghat–II. Tehatta subdivision consists of four community development blocks: Karimpur–I, Karimpur–II, Tehatta–I and Tehatta–II. Krishnanagar is the district headquarters. There are 19 police stations, 17 development blocks, 8 municipalities, 187 gram panchayats and 2639 villages in this district.
Other than municipality area, each subdivision contains community development blocks which in turn are divided into rural areas and census towns. In total there are 29 urban units: 8 municipalities and 15 census towns and two notified areas. Ranaghat, Aistala, Satigachha, Nasra and Cooper's Camp together forms Ranaghat urban agglomeration. Nabadwip, Char Maijdia and Char Brahmanagar forms Nabadwip UA. Chakdaha, Gopalpur and Parbbatipur forms Chakdaha UA. Krishnanagar and Badkulla together forms Krishnanagar UA. Birnagar, Phulia and Taherpur together forms Birnagar UA.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_district
