Kanchrapara

Kanchrapara is a city with a region in Barrackpore subdivision in North 24 Parganas area in the Indian province of West Bengal. It is a piece of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration. From early chronicled period, geologically, this region had been brimming with marshes, normal riverine lake, swamp, water bodies scanty town settlements encompassed by profound wilderness pervaded with wild creatures of numerous sorts. Excepting a couple of pockets, the zone was viewed as unfit for human residence.

In any case, around this territory, there were a few dozen towns pretty much prosperous, for example, Mallickbaag, Kanchanpalli or Kanchrapara, Bhawanipur, Ghoshpara Chandua and Kampa. This territory was opened to advancement in 1862, when the Sealdaha Kusthia Broad Gauge Railway Line, and the 1863 development of a 132000 m² train workshop and railroad station on the northernmost tip of Bizpur Mouza, were finished by the Eastern Bengal State Railway. In 1914 a carriage and wagon shop were included.

Accordingly, an arranged Railway Township was laid and worked toward the East and South West of the Workshops with an extensive iety of foundation - streets, channels, spans, road lights, inward Railway lines, parks, Institutes, Administrative Buildings, Technical School, Hospital, Co-agent shopping stores, Bazaar, play areas for football, Tennis, golf, theaters connected to each organization Hindmarsh, Institute, Bell Institute, Spalding Institute, Officers' Club and so on. The subsequent populace increment caused the development of cottages and pucca structures, requiring spreading out Municipal foundation past the Railway region.