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  ?Narendrapur
West Bengal • India
Coordinates: 22°16′N 88°14′E / 22.26, 88.23
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
District(s) South 24 Parganas

Coordinates: 22°16′N 88°14′E / 22.26, 88.23

This page is about the neighbourhood. See Ramakrishna Mission Narendrapur for the educational institute.

Narendrapur (Bengali: নরেন্দ্রপুর) is a town under Jaynagar Mazilpur police station of Baruipur subdivision in South 24 Parganas district in the state of West Bengal, India. Now it is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. It is the home of a famous school and college founded by Ramakrishna Mission. Narendrapur is situated right beside Aadi Ganga (Old Ganges).

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Geography

Narendrapur is located at 22°16′N 88°14′E / 22.26, 88.23[citation needed]

Transport

Narendrapur in 15 km from Sealdah on the Sealdah – Sonarpur section and is part of the Kolkata Suburban Railway system.

It is connected by road to Garia and the EM Bypass.

  1. REDIRECT The position of Narendrapur, Rajpur, Sonarpur shown in Google Earth is completely wrong. The place is about 40 km from Diamond Harbour, not 11 km as shown currently

Education

Main article: Ramakrishna Mission Narendrapur

Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Narendrapur is a branch of Ramakrishna Mission. The institute has its services open to all irrespective of caste, creed and nationality. Its special field is education. Started in Pathuriaghata, a North Calcutta neighbourhood immediately after the Bengal Famine of 1943, it first served as a home for the poor and orphaned boys. Since its relocation in 1957 to its present site in the southern suburbs of Calcutta, near Garia, it has grown into a huge complex with varied activities. It has more than 2,000 resident students and occupies about 150 acres (0.61 km2) of land dotted with flower gardens, green fields, mango groves and lakes.

Healthcare

Certain areas of South 24 Parganas district has been identified where ground water is affected by arsenic contamination. [1]

References

  1. ^ "Groundwater Arsenic contamination in West Bengal-India (19 years study )". Groundwater arsenic contamination status of North 24-Parganas district, one of the nine arsenic affected districts of West Bengal-India. SOES. Retrieved on 2007-08-24.

See also

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