Gitaldaha | |
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Village | |
  Gitaldaha Location in India Show map of India | |
| Coordinates:26°01′55″N89°29′02″E / 26.032°N 89.484°E /26.032; 89.484 | |
| Country |  India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Cooch Behar |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 2,058 |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 736135 |
| Telephone/STD code | 03582 |
| Vehicle registration | WB |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Cooch Behar |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Sitai |
| Website | coochbehar |
Gitaldaha is a village and agram panchayat in theDinhata ICD block in theDinhata subdivision of theCooch Behar district in the state ofWest Bengal,India.
Gitaldaha is located at26°01′55″N89°29′02″E / 26.032°N 89.484°E /26.032; 89.484.
Gitaldaha I and Gitaldaha II are gram panchayats in Dinhata I CD block.[1]
The map alongside shows the eastern part of the district. In Tufanganj subdivision 6.97% of the population lives in the urban areas and 93.02% lives in the rural areas. In Dinhata subdivision 5.98% of the population lives in the urban areas and 94.02% lives in the urban areas.[2] The entire district forms the flatalluvial flood plains of mighty rivers.[3]
Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivisions. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
As per the2011 Census of India, Gitaldaha had a total population of 3,917. There were 2,058 (53%) males and 1,859 (47%) females. There were 492 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Gitaldaha was 2,563 (74.83% of the population over 6 years).[4]
New Gitaldaha railway station is on the broad gaugeAlipurduar-Bamanhat branch line. Local trains link the area to larger stations at Cooch Behar and Alipurduar from where trains are available for places all over the country.[5]
The area was agog with railway activity in the 19th-20th century. The Assam Behar State Railway linkedParbatipur toKatihar, with ametre gauge line in 1889. in the early 1900s, theEastern Bengal Railway extended railways toLalmonirhat,Gitaldaha (viaMogalhat),Bamanhat,Golokganj and other places, thereby connecting Assam to Katihar, in Bihar, via North Bengal. In 1901Cooch Behar State Railway built thenarrow gauge line from Gitaldaha toJayanti, near the Bhutan border. Shortly thereafter, the line was upgraded to meter gauge.[6][7]
The Lalmonirhat-Mogalhat-Gitaldaha route was functional when India and Pakistan agreed in 1955 for resumption of railway traffic between the two countries, and it included movement of cross traffic via Mogalhat through the Eastern Bengal Railway.[8] A portion of the bridge across the Dharla River at26°00′11″N89°28′10″E / 26.00304°N 89.46934°E /26.00304; 89.46934 was washed away by floods in 1988.[9][10]
The conversion of the 72 km (45 mi) longAlipurduar-Bamanhat branch line to1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm)broad gauge in 2007, and its subsequent recommissioning, had a station atNew Gitaldaha.[11]
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