Krishnanagar, Nadia

Krishnanagar municipality was established in 1864 and is one of the oldest. It is claimed to be named after Krishna Chandra Ray (1728–1782).[3] Previously, the city (village) was called ‘Reui’ (রেউই). The Rajbari built here during the reign of Zaminder Krishna Chandra Roy is a prominent tourist attraction, though the remnants of the past glory have been eroded and only a dilapidated structure of the exquisite places with carving on its inner walls exist today.

Krishnanagar is located at 23.4°N 88.5°E / 23.4; 88.5.[4] The area of the municipality is around 16 km². It is situated on the southern banks of the Jalangi River.[2] It has an average elevation of 14 metres (46 ft). The Tropic of Cancer passes through the outskirts of Krishnanagar. The latitude of the Tropic of Cancer is 23° 26′ 5″ N.

As of the 2011 Census,[5] Krishnanagar city had a population of 181,182, with 91,583 males and 89,599 females. It is at the centre of a much bigger urban agglomeration which as of the 2011 census, had a population of 2,03,429.[6] The urban agglomeration had a sex ratio of 978 females per 1,000 males.[6] The child sex ratio is 926 girls per 1000 boys. 7.5% of the population were under six years old.[6] The effective literacy rate was 88.09%, of which male and female literacy was 90.84% and 85.29%, respectively.[6]

Krishnanagar Post Office

Krishnanagar city is governed by Krishnanagar Municipalty,[7] which comes under Krishnanagar Municipal Region. The area of the municipality is divided into 24 wards with 24 councillors. Krishnanagar is the administrative headquarters of Nadia district. Krishnanagar is the centre for all administration purposes.[7] The parties which contest for the elections are Trinomool Congress, Indian National Congress, BJP, and CPIM. The board of councillors elects a chairman from among its elected members; the chairman is the executive head of the municipality. The elected members of this body are authorised to manage education, health, tourism, and overall development of the area.

Medical Facilities

As Krishnanagar is the headquarters of Nadia District,[2] it gets some of the added benefits. Apart from Government Hospitals, there are private run nursing home as well.

Krishnanagar[7] is 100 km north of Kolkata. Being the district headquarters, residents of Krishnanagar enjoy some unique facilities as far as transport is considered: wide roads, intracity connectivity by auto rickshaws, cycle rickshaws, E-rickshaws, service buses, and magic taxis (aka Toto). Express buses are available for places like Kolkata, Malda, Siliguri, Berhampore, Howrah, Purulia, Asansol, Durgapur, Bolpur, Kirnahar, Suri etc. from the city's Bus Stand or PWD stand very close to NH 34. The nearest airports are Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, which is 98 kilometres (61 mi) by road, and Kazi Nazrul Airport, which is 176 kilometres (109 mi) by road.

Bus Stand

Rail

Krishnanagar City Junction railway station

Krishnanagar City Junction railway station[7] is a junction on the Lalgola branch line of the Eastern Railway. Local EMU trains are the most convenient option to reach Kolkata.

All trains going to or coming from Lalgola stop at Krishnanagar. MEMU trains depart from Ranaghat heading for Bahrampur and vice versa stops at Krishnanagar.

EMU (Broad gauge local) train service between these two cities Santipur and Krishnanagar have started, and will be extended to Nabadwip and will be open for passengers shortly. 13103/13104 Sealdah-Lalgola Bhagirathi Express, 13113/13114 Hazarduari Express, Lalgola Fast Passenger and a few Lalgola Passenger are the trains that run daily. Kolkata-Lalgola triweekly Express (Dhanadhanye Express) is also an express train that takes the Sealdah-Lalgola route. Ladies special (Matribhumi local) from Krishnanagar to Sealdah runs everyday. The line extends to north Bengal via Ajimganj / Nasipur Bridge and will be used by Darjeeling Mail (sdah-njp) from the December at the end of year.

Krishnanagar is an important centre for culture and literature. It counts literary figures such as Ray Gunakor Bharatchandra, Ramprasad Sen, Dwijendralal Ray and Narayan Sanyal among many others. There is also a strong tradition of stage acting and Indian revolutionary movements. Several elegant pieces of handicraft arts can also be found in this region, namely the handicraft in making of carpet, bamboo and jute crafts, miniature paintings. a horticultural research station and jute nursery, and an agricultural training centre.

Jagaddhatri Puja is celebrated with great grandeur in Krishnanagar, when lighting from the town of Chandannagar are brought.

Dwijendralal Roy

• Dwijendralal Ray[13] (1863–1913), Indian poet, playwright, and lyricist, was born on 19 July 1863 in Krishnanagar, where his father, Kartikeya Chandra Roy, was the Dewan. His mother, Prasannamayee Devi, was a descendant of Adwaita Prabhu. Dwijendralal graduated in arts from Hughli College in 1883 and obtained his MA degree in English from Presidency College a year later. In 1905 Dwijendralal established a literary society, Purnima Milon, in Kolkata. He became the editor of the monthly bharatvarsa in 1913. Dwijendralal had a literary bent of mind and started writing poems while still in his teens. While still a student he wrote Aryagatha (Part 1, 1882). During his stay in England, he wrote The Lyrics of Ind in 1886. Among his other books are collections of poems and songs: Aryagatha (Part 2, 1894), Hasir Gan (1900), Mandra (1902), Alekhya (1907), and Triveni (1912). His sketches and satires include Ekghare (1889), Samaj Bibhrat O Kalki Avatar (1895), Tryahasparsha (1900), Prayashchitta (1902), and Punarjanma (1911). He also wrote plays, many of which are included in university syllabi. Among his mythical plays are Pasani (1900), Sita (1908) and Visma (1914). His social plays include Parapare (1912) and Banganari (1916). He also wrote a number of historical plays: Tarabai (1903), Rana Pratapsingh (1905), Mebar Patan (1908), Nurjahan (1908), Sajahan (1909) and Chandragupta (1911). Most of his plays were successfully staged in Kolkata and elsewhere. He is specially remembered for his historical plays. He was also a well-known composer of modern songs; Dwijendragiti is still a form a regular feature of radio and television programmes. He died on 17 May 1913 in Kolkata.
• Ramtanu Lahiri (1813–1898)[13] was a young Bengal leader, a renowned teacher, and a social reformer. Peary Chand Mitra wrote about him, “There are few persons in whom the milk of kindness flows so abundantly. He was never wanting in appreciation of what was right, and in his sympathy with the advanced principles.” Sivanath Sastri’s Ramtanu Lahiri Tatkalin Bangasamj, published in 1903, was not only his biography but also an overview of Bengali society of the era, “a remarkable social document on the period of the Bengal Renaissance.” It is still widely read and used as reference material for the period.
• Bijoylal Chattopadhyaya[7] (born 1898), started setting the local community on the path of social reforms. Since then, the name has been changed to Harijan Palli. In independent India's first election in 1951, Bijoylal Chattopadhyay of Congress won the Krishnagar seat.
• Jagadananda Roy[7] (1869–1933), a scientific article writer, was born in a landed aristocratic family in Krishnanagar. He taught in a local missionary school for some time. His flair for writing on scientific matters in a simple and lucid style brought him into contact with Rabindranath who was then the editor of Sadhana. Rabindranath found these writings very attractive and when he found that Jagadananda was in dire straits, he offered him a job on his estate. Knowing that this work was not appropriate for someone like Jagadananda, he also asked him to teach his children. When the Brahmacharyasrama was founded, he brought Jagadananda over to Santiniketan as a teacher. He was the first Sarvadhyaksha of the school. A dedicated teacher, he taught continuously till his retirement in 1932, after which he continued to take Mathematics classes voluntarily. He wrote a number of books on popular science, his mission being to propagate scientific truth in simple Bengali in the manner of Ramendrasundar Trivedi. Graha-Nakshatra, Prakritiki, Vaijnaniki, Jagadishchandrer Avishkar, and Banglar Pakhi were some of his books.

Bagha Jatin

• Bagha Jatin (born Jatindranath Mukherjee) (7 December 1879 – 10 September 1915) was an Indian Bengali revolutionary philosopher against British rule. He was the principal leader of the Yugantar party that was the central association of revolutionaries in Bengal. Having personally met the German Crown-Prince in Calcutta shortly before World War I, he obtained the promise of arms and ammunition from Germany; as such, he was responsible for the planned German Plot during World War I.
• Soumitra Chattopadhyay[14] is an Indian film and stage actor and poet. He is best known for his collaborations with film director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films, and his constant comparison with the Bengali cinema screen idol Uttam Kumar, his contemporary leading man of the 1960s and 1970s.

Hemanta Kumar Sarkar, Haripada Chattopadhyay, Dilip Kumar Roy, Lahiri Mahasaya, Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Charles Gmelin[15] (First British Olympic Games award-winning athlete) were born in this city. Some of the notable names of personalities who resided in this city include Pramod Ranjan Sengupta (Socialist revolutionary and member of the Indian National Army), Dr. Khudiram Das (Ram Tanu Lahiri Professor, Calcutta University), Monomohun Ghose, Lalmohan Ghosh, Bina Das, Anantahari Mitra, Dilip Bagchi, Gourav Chetlangia, Bipradas Pal Chowdhury, and Dhirendranath Sarkar (Religious Guru).

There are various Government and private run schools affiliated with the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, The Indian Council for Secondary Examination (ICSE), Delhi board and Kendriya Vidyalaya, and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).

• Krishnagar Collegiate School (1846) (the former house of barrister Monomohun Ghose)
  

  Krishnagar Collegiate School
• C.M.S. St. John's High School (established 1834)
• Krishnanagar Debnath High School
• Kendriya Vidyalaya B.S.F., Krishnagar
• Krishnanagar High School
• Krishnanagar Government Girls' High School
• Krishnanagar Lady Carmichael Girls' Higher Secondary School
• Krishnanagar A.V. High School (established 1849)
• Shaktinagar High School
• Holy Family and Government Girls
• Kabi Vijoylal H.S. Institute
• Ram Baux Chetlangia High School
• Mrinalini Girls High School
• Swarnamayee Girls High School
• Ghurni High School
• Helen Keller Smriti Vidya Mandir
• Krishnagar Akshay Vidyapith Girls High School
• Kalinagar High School (H.S.)
• Krishnagar Anatheswar adarswa Vidya Pith (A.A.V.P.)

Hellen Keller School

• Bishop Morrow School (formerly known as Mary Immaculate School)
• Krishnanagar Academy (from class 3 to class 12) also known as Ramtanu Lahiri Academy (from lower nursery to class 2)
• Krishnagar Public School (KPS)
• Don Bosco Higher Secondary School
• Jagabandhu Sishu Niketan

Krishnanagar Government College

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