Khardaha

Khardaha, also written Khardah, is a city and municipality in the North 24 Parganas district of the Indian state of West Bengal, within the area covered by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. It began as part of the South Barrackpore and West Barrackpore municipalities established in 1877, and South Barrackpore was renamed Khardah Municipality in 1920. The town has a railway station on the Sealdah-Ranaghat line that divides it into an eastern part called Rahara and a western part called Khardaha, and it sits at an average elevation of about 15 metres beside the Hooghly River. At the 2011 census of India it had 108,496 residents. The Khardah Jute Mill, nationalised in 1980, is among its best known industries.