Dankuni

Dankuni is a city in the Kolkata Metropolitan Region, in Hooghly district of West Bengal, India, and lies within the area covered by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. It sits in the Srirampore subdivision, the most urbanised subdivision of Hooghly district. The city came under the control of the British East India Company in the eighteenth century and became a centre of jute production. After 1947 it industrialised quickly, and its industry includes a Mother Dairy plant set up under Operation Flood, a low temperature carbonisation coal complex and chemical and tube factories. Dankuni has a tropical climate classified Aw under the Koppen system, with far more rain in summer than in winter. Bengali is the first language of about 70 percent of residents, followed by Hindi.