Konnagar

Konnagar is a city with a region in Hooghly District in the territory of West Bengal, India. It is under Uttarpara police headquarters in Serampore subdivision. It is a piece of the region secured by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. It was a residential community that developed to be a town in the nineteenth century. Shib Chandra Deb, the famous Derozian and Brahmo pioneer, contributed considerably towards advancement of Konnagar. A pioneer in ladies' liberation, he aided the advancement of schools in the region. The railroad station was opened in 1856 and the mail station in 1858. In 1931, Tomas Bata, the Czech shoe big shot, built up his first Indian activity at Konnagar. By 1936, the Konnagar plan was eliminated.

In May 1931, Tomas sold his business advantages to his sibling Jan Antonin Bata who built up Batanagar, Bata's first changeless shoe industrial facility in India. The Bata mark was built up on August 24, 1894 in Zlín, Czech Republic. The organization initially settled itself in India in 1931 by leasing a working to begin an exploratory shoe generation plant in Konnagar, West Bengal with 75 Czech specialists. Despite the fact that it was under Jan Antonin Bata organization that composed, created and manufactured the modern city called Batanagar in 1934. Jan Bata likewise manufacture processing plants in Digha close Patna, and somewhere else in India, utilizing in excess of 7,000 individuals. Batanagar, under Jan Bata's standards wound up one of the greater sub-urban towns close Kolkata.