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Kulgachia is a village of Howrah district in the state West Bengal, India. The rail station located at the center of the town is only 40 km from howrah station and NH6 is only about 500 meter from the station area. Over the last five years it has been changed, developed and grown drastically to a town from village life though it is under panchayet raj administrative system yet. Populations are dramatically increased here nowadays due to the good communication with Kolkata, Kharagpur and other economically important parts of the state West Bengal.
Infrastructure
Notable transportation networks include the Southeastern Railway, NH6, and Damodar. The Orissa Trunk Road is the main road and passes through the heart of the town. It connects to National Highway No-6, the Bombay Road.
Kulgachia has a railroad station.
Beside the station area there are two markets popularly known as Kulgachia super market and Ramkrisha market. Both of the markets have different types of shops, including a number of pharmacies. Chandipur Block Primary Health Centre popularly known as Chandipur hospital is only Template:Convert from the station.
Geography
Kulgachia is located in the eastern part of India[1] With an average elevation of Template:Convert. It is situated close to the Damodar River.
As it is an unplanned Panchayet town right now and has been known to suffer from drainage problems during periods of heavy rain. Other persistent issues are erosion caused by the Damodar river and encroachment.
Demographics
The Kulgachia area is estimated to have a population of 10,987,778.
Bus routes
- Kulgachia-Serampore
- Esplanade-Bagnan Calcutta Tramways Company
- Esplanade-Shyampur
- Bagnan-Burdwan
- Bagnan-Science City
- Bagnan-Park Circus
- Bagnan-Sinthee More
- Bagnan-Barasat
- Bagnan-Bidhannagar
- Bagnan-Sealdah
- Bagnan-Ruby crossing
- Bagnan-Shyambazar
- Howrah-Bakshi
- Howrah-Digha
- Howrah-Ghatal
- Howrah-Chandrakona Road
Colleges
- OmDayal Group of Institutions
- Vivekananda Ramakrishna Mission B.Ed. College
Schools
- Srikrishnapur Chittaranjan High School
- Ideal Public School
- Pirpur JUC Institute
- Joargori High School
- Netaji Balika vidyalaya
- Kamina High School
KG Schools
- Shishu Siksha Niketan
- Children's Academy
- Ankur
- Vivekananda KG School
- Adhyayan Public School
References
Template:Howrah District Template:Kolkata neighbourhoods Template:Municipalities of West Bengal Template:Howrah topics