Singur | |
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 Dakat Kali Temple, Singur | |
  Singur Location in West Bengal, India Show map of West Bengal Singur Singur (India) Show map of India | |
| Coordinates:22°49′N88°14′E / 22.81°N 88.23°E /22.81; 88.23 | |
| Country |  India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Hooghly |
| Elevation | 14 m (46 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 21,382 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Bengali,English |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| Postal code | 712 409 |
| Telephone/STD code | 03326 |
| Vehicle registration | WB |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Hooghly |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Singur |
Singur is acensus town inSingur CD block inChandannagore subdivision ofHooghly district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.
Singur is located at22°49′N88°14′E / 22.81°N 88.23°E /22.81; 88.23. It has an average elevation of 14 metres (45 ft), and is situated on theGanges delta.
The villages comprising Singur include Balarambati, Dewan Bheri, Dobandi, Baburberi, Khasherbheri, Joymolla, Ujjal Sangha,Beraberi, Khagragachi East & West,Bajemelia,Anandanagar, Deb Design Gallery, Ratanpur,Gopalnagar, Apurbapur, Jalaghata, Daluigacha East and West, Mirzapur, Bankipur, Boinchipota, Nabapally, Beleghata, Khosalpur, Pawnan, Gandarpukur, Dasani & Choyani, Ratanpur 1 & 2, Singherbheri, Nasibpur, Mollasimla, Rasulpur, Durgarampur, Dansi, Deshapara, Diara, Gobindapur, Hakimpur, Nanda, Habaspota, Naskarpur, Nabapally, Chhutipur, Subhipur, Notun Bazar, Benipur, Antisara, Burashanti, Ghanashyampur, Paltagorh, Telipukur, Khaserchak, Batriskhura, Alurbadh, Durgarampur, Biramnagar and Harishnagar.
Some Upscale neighborhood under Singur census town are Nabapally, Green Park, Vivekananda pally, Vidyut Pally, Shantipuram Sector 1 and 2, Beltala lane, Vivekananda sarani and Daluigacha East.
Singur police station has jurisdiction overSingur CD block.[1][2]
The headquarters of Singur CD block are located at Singur.[3]
In Chandannagore subdivision 58.52% of the population is rural and the urban population is 41.48%. Chandannagore subdivision has one municipal corporation, three municipalities and sevencensus towns. The single municipal corporation isChandernagore Municipal Corporation. The municipalities areTarakeswar Municipality,Bhadreswar Municipality andChampdany Municipality.[4] Of the three CD blocks in Chandannagore subdivision, Tarakeswar CD block is wholly rural, Haripal CD block is predominantly rural with just one census town, and Singur CD block is slightly less rural with six census towns. Polba Dadpur and Dhaniakhali CD blocks of Chinsurah subdivision (included in the map below) are wholly rural.[5] The municipal areas are industrialised. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
Approximately 30000 people live in Singur Census town in 2024
As per the2011 Census of India, Singur census town had a total population of 21,382, of which 10,825 (51%) were males and 10,557 (49%) were females. The population below 6 years old was 1,646. The total number of literates in Singur was 17,458 (88.46% of the population over 6 years old).[5]
As of the 2001 Indiacensus,[6] Singur had a population of 19,539. Males constituted 51% of the population and females 49%. Singur had an average literacy rate of 76%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy was 81%, and female literacy was 71%. In Singur, 9% of the population were under 6 years of age.
Purusottampur is one of the oldest villages in Singur. Adi Biswalakhi Mandir, Dakat Kali Mandir, Anandamoyee Kali Mandir, Santosimar Mandir and Shib Mandir are situated in this village.
Singur gained international media attention sinceTata Motors started constructing a factory to manufacture their $2,500 car, theTata Nano, at Singur. The small car was scheduled to roll out of the factory by 2008.[7] In October 2008 Tatas announced its withdrawal from the project.[8] 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.[9][10]
Himadri Speciality Chemical Ltd operates one of its major plants in Singur opposite the abandoned Tata Motors factory.[11] HSCL is the third largest producer of carbon black in India, and has a 17% share of the market.[12]
Singur Ratanpur is one of the Largest potato market in West bengal.
There are also a well established Cad Industry in Singur where almost 8000 people are directly employed
SIU/Singur is well connected withHowrah Junction railway station. Local trains runs betweenSingur railway station andHowrah Station viaSheoraphuli railway station. Around 32lakh people from all around the city commute to Kolkata daily for work. In the Howrah-Tarakeswar section there are 48 trains that carry commuters from 21 railway stations.[13]
Singur is well connected with Kolkata throughDurgapur Expressway (NH 2), Baidyabati to Tarkeswar connected road as (SH 2).
And also available inter town auto and E. Rikswa service
Singur Government College, a general degree college, was established at Singur in 2013. It is affiliated with theUniversity of Burdwan and offers honours courses in Bengali, English, physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Botany, Zoology, Computer Science, Geography, Sanskrit, Santhali, history, philosophy, political science, sociology and psychology.[14][15]
There are several schools in Singur, including Madhubati Surabala Vidyamandir, Jogamaya Memorial Institute, Mahamaya High School, Golap Mohini Mallick Girls' High School,[16][17] Anandanagar A C Roy High School, D. D. Bharati Vidyalaya, D.D. Bharati Balika Vidyalaya Anandanagar Ramanath High School, Gopalnagar High School, Beraberi SNM High School, Star Land School, Explore International, Educare School, Nasibpur High School, Paltagarh High School, Swami Vivekananda School, Nandan and Abani Sishu Niketan.
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