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Masat, Hooghly

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District
  
India

District
  
Hooghly

PIN
  
712701

State
  
West Bengal

Time zone
  
IST (UTC+5:30)

Lok Sabha constituency
  
Serampore

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Masat is a census town in Chanditala I CD Block in the Hooghly district of West Bengal, India. It is under the Chanditala police station in the Srirampore subdivision.

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Map of Mosat, West Bengal 712701

It is located approximately 28 km from the district headquarters of Hooghly and 33 km from the state capital, Kolkata.

Geography

Masat is located at 22.736986°N 88.191802°E / 22.736986; 88.191802 and is a Gram panchayat in the Chanditala I community development block, Hooghly.

Demographics

As of the 2011 Census of India, Masat has a total population of 8,007, consisting of 4,033 males and 3,974 females. The population of children under 6 years old is 752. The total number of literate people in Masat is 6,286 (86.64% of the population over 6 years of age).

Railway

Baruipara railway station is the nearest railway station at Howrah-Bardhaman chord Kolkata Suburban Railway. The main road is State Highway 15. It is the main road of the town and is connected to NH2.

Private Bus Routes

  • 26 Bonhooghly — Chapadanga
  • Bus Routes without Numbers

  • Gajar More — Salt Lake 206 Bus Stand
  • Furfura Sharif – Nabatkati
  • CTC Bus Routes

  • E13/1 Esplanade — Jangipara
  • E14 Esplanade — Furfura Shariff
  • E33 Habra — Antpur
  • Education

  • Colleges
  • Vidyasagar Mahavidyalaya, established in 1998 is an undergraduate college in the city of Masat.

  • High Schools
  • Masat Aptap Mitra High School

    Type: Co-ed Subjects offered: Accountancy, Business Economics & Mathematics, Bio-Science, Bengali (A), Chemistry, Eco-Geography, Economics, English (B), Geography, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science

    References

    Masat, Hooghly Wikipedia