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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Gopal Nagar
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| subdivision_name2 = [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]]
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| population_total = 12,232
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| website = http://www.gopalnagar.info
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{{for|village with same name in North 24 Parganas district|Gopalnagar, North 24 Parganas}}
'''Gopalnagar''' is a village in [[Singur (community development block)|Singur]] CD Block in [[Hooghly district]] in the [[States and territories of India|state]] [[West Bengal]], India.

==Geography==
Gopalnagar is located at {{coord|22|49|44|N|88|12|50|E}}.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://wikimapia.org/843046/Gopalnagar-Recreation-Club | title= Gopalnagar Recreation Club | work= Hooghly district| publisher= Wikimapia | access-date = 13 June 2016}}</ref>

==Demographics==
As per the [[2011 Census of India]] Gopalnagar had a total population of 12,232 of which 6,278 (51%) were males and 5,954 (49%) were females. Population below 6 years was 933. The total number of literates in Gopalnagar was 9,901 (87.63% of the population over 6 years).<ref name=census2011>{{cite web| url = http://censusindia.gov.in/pca/cdb_pca_census/Houselisting-housing-WB.html |title = C.D. Block Wise Primary Census Abstract Data(PCA) | work= 2011 census: West Bengal – District-wise CD Blocks|publisher= Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India | access-date = 13 June 2016}}</ref>

==Economy==

===Tata Motors at Singur===
{{Main article|Tata Nano Singur controversy}}
Singur gained international media attention since [[Tata Motors]] started constructing a factory to manufacture their $2,500 car, the [[Tata Nano]] at Singur. The small car was scheduled to roll out of the factory by 2008.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-corporate/article1753082.ece |title = Tata Motors’ small car to roll out of Singur by 2008 |publisher= The Hindu Business Line, 26 November 2006 | access-date = 3 June 2016}}</ref> In October 2008 Tatas announced withdrawal from the project.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://twocircles.net/2008oct04/tatas_singur_withdrawal_slap_west_bengal_biman_bose.html#.V1Feo5F97IU |title = Tata’s Singur Withdrawal ‘slap’ for West Bengal: Biman Bose|publisher= Two Circles.net, 4 October 2008 | access-date = 24 May 2016}}</ref> Six villages – [[Bajemelia]], [[Beraberi]], Gopalnagar, Joymolla, Khaser Bheri and Sinher Bheri – were affected by land acquisition.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://personal.lse.ac.uk/GHATAK/Singur_short.pdf |title = Land Acquisition and Compensation: What Really Happened in Singur? | work= Maitresh Ghatak, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee, Anusha Nath|publisher= Economic and Political Weekly, 25 May 2013 | access-date = 3 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://twocircles.net/2012dec25/singur_six_years_later.html#.V132m49OLIU |title = Singur: Six years later | work= 25 December 2012 |publisher= TwoCircles.net | access-date = 13 June 2016}}</ref> In 2016, the Supreme Court quashed the West Bengal government’s acquisition of 997 acres of agricultural land for Tata Motors and ordered its return to 9,117 landowners.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Return-Singur-land-to-farmers-SC-orders-West-Bengal-govt./article14600055.ece | title = Return land to Farmers: SC orders West Bengal govt.| first= Krishnadas |last = Rajagopal| access-date = 8 June 2017 | publisher = The Hindu, 31 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/national/bengal-to-return-singur-land-to-farmers-on-sept-14/article9100087.ece | title = Bengal to return Singur land to farmers on Sept 14 | access-date = 8 June 2017 | publisher = The Hindu Business Line, 12 September 2016}}</ref>

==Education==
Gopalnagar High School is a coeducational higher secondary school, established in 1962 at PO Gopalnagar Harharia. It has arrangements for teaching Bengali, English, history, geography, political science, economics and mathematics.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://wbchse.nic.in/admin/home.php?page=149 | title= Gopalnagar High School| publisher = West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education |access-date = 6 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.kulguru.com/school/gopalnagore-high-school-gopalnagore-singur-hooghly-west-bengal-ztf8ok6i| title = Gopalnagar High School | publisher = Kulguru |access-date = 6 October 2018}}</ref>
==Transport==
[[Singur railway station]] is the nearest railway station.

==References==
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{{Hooghly District}}

[[Category:Villages in Hooghly district]]

{{Hooghly-geo-stub}}

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