Pandua

Pandua is a census town in Pandua CD Block in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a police headquarters in Chinsurah subdivision. It is 61 kilometers from Howrah station and 21 kilometers from Bandel on the Howrah-Bardhaman Main Line of Eastern Railway and is a piece of the Kolkata Suburban Railway framework. The place is best known for its minar and the vestiges of Pandu Raja's Palace where terrifically essential state functions were held. The thirteenth century minar takes off to a tallness of 125 feet. Pandua had a populace of 27,126. Guys comprise 51% of the populace and females 49%.

Pandua has a normal proficiency rate of 67%, higher than the national normal of 59.5%: male education is 72%, and female education is 62%. In Pandua, 12% of the populace is under 6 years old. Shahid Shah Safiuddin was the nephew of Feroz Shah Khilji the Sultan of Delhi. It is said that a Pandu Raja lived in Mahanad in Hooghly where bovine butcher was completely prohibited. Anyway the Sultan settled in Pandua for the event of his child's circumciscion service. So he had butchered a dairy animals for devour to offer to his visitors. This irritated the King and he relinquished the holy person's child to Goddess Kali.