Konnagar
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Konnagar | |
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Town | |
 Konnagar Ferry Ghat which connects Konnagar to Sodepur | |
  Konnagar Location in West Bengal, India  Konnagar Konnagar (India)  Konnagar Konnagar (Asia) | |
| Coordinates: 22°42′12″N 88°19′07″E / 22.7032°N 88.3185°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | West Bengal |
| Division | Burdwan |
| District | Hooghly |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| • Body | Konnagar Municipality |
| Area | |
• Total | 4.67 km2 (1.80 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 14 m (46 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 76,172 |
| • Density | 16,300/km2 (42,200/sq mi) |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Bengali[1][2] |
| • Additional official | English[2] |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 712235 |
| Telephone code | +91 33 |
| Vehicle registration | WB |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Serampore |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Uttarpara |
| Website | www |
Konnagar is a town and a municipality of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The town is under the jurisdiction of the Uttarpara police station in Serampore subdivision. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA).[3][4]
History
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In 1931, Tomáš Baťa, the Czechoslovak shoe tycoon, established his first Indian operation in Konnagar. By 1936, the plant was phased out. In May 1931, Baťa sold his business interests to his brother Jan Antonín Baťa, who founded Batanagar, Bata's first permanent shoe factory in India. The Bata brand was launched on 24 August 1894 in Zlín, then in Austria-Hungary (now in the Czech Republic). The company first established itself in India in 1931 by renting a building to start an experimental shoe production plant in Konnagar, with 75 Czech experts. Jan Antonín Baťa also built factories in Digha, near Patna, and elsewhere in India, employing more than 7,000 people. Batanagar, under Baťa's ideals, became one of the bigger suburban towns near Kolkata.
Konnagar has been the home of many notable personalities. It was the ancestral home of the great nationalist and religious leader Sri Aurobindo[5] and noted physicist Sisir Kumar Mitra.[6] Shafiur Rahman one of the martyrs of the language movement in East Pakistan was born in Konnagar.[7]
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