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Beraberi is a village in Singur CD Block in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Geography
Beraberi is located at Template:Coord.[1]
Demographics
As per the 2011 Census of India Beraberi had a total population of 6,810 of which 3,454 (51%) were males and 3,356 (49%) were females. Population below 6 years was 644. The total number of literates in Beraberi was 5,173 (83.90% of the population over 6 years).[2]
Economy
Tata Motors at Singur
Template:Main article 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.[3] In October 2008, Tatas announced withdrawal from the project.[4] Six villages – Bajemelia, Beraberi, Gopalnagar, Joymolla, Khaser Bheri and Sinher Bheri – were affected by land acquisition.[5][6] 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.[7][8]
Education
Beraberi Suryya Narayan Memorial High School is a coeducational higher secondary school. It has arrangements for teaching Bengali, English, Sanskrit, history, geography, economics, mathematics, physics and chemistry.[9]
Transport
Madhusudanpur railway station on Howrah-Bardhaman chord line is the nearest railway station.
References
- ↑ Beraberi Bazar. Wikimapia. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
- ↑ C.D. Block Wise Primary Census Abstract Data(PCA). Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
- ↑ Tata Motors’ small car to roll out of Singur by 2008. The Hindu Business Line, 26 November 2006. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- ↑ Tata’s Singur Withdrawal ‘slap’ for West Bengal: Biman Bose. Two Circles.net, 4 October 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ Land Acquisition and Compensation: What Really Happened in Singur?. Economic and Political Weekly, 25 May 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- ↑ Singur: Six years later. TwoCircles.net. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
- ↑ Return land to Farmers: SC orders West Bengal govt., Rajagopal, Krishnadas. The Hindu, 31 August 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
- ↑ Bengal to return Singur land to farmers on Sept 14. The Hindu Business Line, 12 September 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
- ↑ Beraberi Suryya Narayan Memorial High School. West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education. Retrieved 6 October 2018.