Kadamtala

History

This area was a part of bhurshut kingdom. This area was mainly developed under British occupation when ceded by Nawab of Murshidabad after the Battle of Plassey. With the establishment of the Howrah Railway Terminus in 1854 started the most important phase of its industrial development. Flour mills were established in 1855, followed by Jute mills and around the 1870s, there were five mills near Howrah station.[11] The Howrah–Shalimar Railway Section and the Shalimar Terminus were constructed in 1883. Kadamtala was also a major railway junction of Martin's Light Railways. Kadamtala has turned to an industrial area during world war II. A high demand of iron leads to establish a number of small and medium-sized iron-casting industries. Gradually the city of Howrah was called as Sheffield of Bengal when Mr. Alamohan Das established a large factory township named Dasnagar. A large number of Machines/tools/precision instruments manufacturiing factories were established. All the above reasons result to a flow of population from rural belts of Howrah, Hooghly and Midnapur districts to this area to meet the demand of a high demand of labor. Gradually, this area has become a densely populated area with the location advantage of industries of Dasnagar in west, Howrah Railway terminus in east. The rapid growth of population and negligence of planned infrastructure of the British Government and then flux of people from Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) leads to a breakdown of infrastructure of unplanned and narrow roads. The economic decline of West Bengal after partition of India also causes a big blow to Howrah's famous jute and machine-tools industries.

Recent developments

Currently Kadamtala is mainly residential area, but still there exist significant number of private smalled scaled industrial infrastructures. The population is mainly divided into few economic classes. There is a working class who temporarily stay in this town and work in the small scaled iron-casting, machine tools and precision instruments industries. A number of people also work in different Government and Private service sectors. Also few are engaged with small-scaled businesses. After the famous Vidyasagar Setu established, this town has become well connected with Kolkata by both Vidyasagar Setu and Howrah Bridge. Kadamtala is also connected to Kona Expressway, which was built by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). This road serves as a connector of Kolkata (via Vidyasagar Setu) to National Highway 2 (India) (NH 2) and hence is part of Golden Quadrilateral project. At Nibra town of the Howrah district, Kona Expressway joins with National Highway 6 (India) (NH 6) as well. A recent on-going development of Kolkata Metro from Saltlake to Howrah Maidan will also increase the significance of this town. This railway connection Line 2 (East-West Metro) is under construction by Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation.

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Education and sports

Sri Ramkrishna Sikshalaya, Tara Sundari Valika Vidyabhaban, Vivekananda Institution , Howrah Zilla School, Bantra MSPC High School are well known schools in the locality for large numbers of good students. Kadamtala also has a number of colleges to study regular under-graduation ( such as Narasingha Dutta College, Howrah Bijay krishna girls college) and Medical education (such as Mahesh Bhattacharyya Homeopathic Medical college and Government Hospital). It adds to sports excellence of Howrah known for the football talents like Sailen Manna. The newly built indoor stadium in Dumurjala is encircled with a clubs devoted to various sports and athletic activities like swimming, hockey and cricket, not to mention football.

Problems

Even after all the improvement in the recent two decades the place is not free of the usual problems with Howrah. The amount of road space to the population in Howrah is too small compared to even smaller towns by populations like Berhampur. The same problem applies to Kadamtala too.