Why visit Konnagar
Townapedia lists 1 museum or landmark, 11 parks and trails, 5 places to eat and 1 attraction in and around town.
Highlights include Narula Institute of Technology, Abanindranath Tagore's Baganbari, Nabinpally SK Jalaluddin childrens park and Subhasnagar football ground.
Weather in Konnagar
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About Konnagar
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).
From the Wikipedia article Konnagar (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Things to do1
Narula Institute of Technology
School · 4.8 km
Engineering college in West Bengal, India
Museums and landmarks1
Abanindranath Tagore's Baganbari
Museum · 1.8 km
62/A Grand Trunk Road, Konnagar
Mo-Su 10:00-17:00
Parks, trails and playgrounds11
Nabinpally SK Jalaluddin childrens park
Park · 2.0 km
5/a Near subhasnagar2 Westbengal, Rishra
24/7
Restaurants and cafes5
History
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 and noted physicist Sisir Kumar Mitra. Shafiur Rahman one of the martyrs of the language movement in East Pakistan was born in Konnagar.
From the History section of Konnagar on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Churches and places of worship5
Schools, colleges and libraries3
Healthcare6
Map of Konnagar
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Getting there and nearby towns
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport (CCU) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 12 km away.
- Rishra 2 km north, about 2 min by car
- Pānihāti 3 km southeast, about 3 min by car
- Khardah 4 km northeast, about 4 min by car
- Kāmārhāti 5 km southeast, about 5 min by car
- Shrīrāmpur 5 km north, about 5 min by car
- Bāli 6 km south, about 6 min by car
- Bārākpur 7 km north, about 7 min by car
- Madhyamgram 11 km east, about 11 min by car
- Dam Dam 11 km southeast, about 11 min by car
- Howrah 15 km south, about 15 min by car
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Sources and licences
- GeoNames (CC BY 4.0): population, coordinates, regions and time zone
- OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0): places, airports, map data
- Wikidata (CC0 1.0): elevation, founding date, time zone, website, landmarks and historic places
- Wikimedia Commons (see each image): photos
- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): overview and history text
Photo credits
- Konnagar Ferry Ghat at Konnagar 03, Pinakpani, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Narula Institute of Technology, Keiran Diksa, CC BY-SA 4.0
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