Sodepur

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district = North 24 Parganas
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Sodepur (Bengali: সোদপুর) is a small town located about 15 km from Kolkata, which is one of the major Indian cities. Sodepur is a part of the Panihati Municipality under Barrackpore sub-division and North 24 Parganas district of the state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. [cite web
url = http://www.cmdaonline.com/kma.html | title = Base Map of Kolkata Metroploitan area | accessdate = 2007-09-03 | last = | first = | work = | publisher = Kolkata Metroploitan Development Authority ]

The major landmark of modern Sodepur is the shopping complex named Sriniketan, and the Peerless Nagar Housing Complex, Lokasanskriti Bhawan, Rathindra and Mina Cinema Hall on the BT Road. Perpendicular to this road is the Sodepur Station Road, which is Sodepur's major shopping area. This road is lined with shops selling various items. The Sodepur suburban railway station lies on the right of this road. The Health System for people of Sodepur consists of private Nursing Homes and private practitioners apart from one State General Hospital.

Website : http://www.sodepurbazar.com/

Geography

Sodepur is located at coord|22.71|N|88.39|E| [ [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/28/Sodpur.html Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Sodepur] ] . It has an average elevation of m to ft|15|m|abbr=on.

Transport

From Shyambazar, one can go straight on the Barrackpore Trunk Road [BT Road] until one reaches Sodepur. Bus Routes are 78B, Sodepur BBD Bag Mini Bus, 78E from Shaymbazar Five point crossing. From the airport, the Sodepur Road turn from Madhyamgram Five point crossing reaches here. It is easier to reach Sodepur along Railroad. All the suburban trains of Eastern Railways from North Section of Sealdah Station go via Sodepur and most of those stop here. It takes about 25 mins to reach Sodepur from Sealdah.

Another way is to catch underground railway (Metro Rail) and reach DumDum Station and from there via a train to Sodepur, which will take about 12 mins to reach.

Education

The oldest school at Sodepur is Sodepur High School (H.S.). It was established in 1853. This school is one of the oldest in West Bengal. The other old schools here are Chandrachur Vidyapith (Boys, Girls and Primary), Desbandhu Sikshyatan, St. Xaviers Institute, Buniadi School. Panihati College which contributed much in education system of the locality. Sodepur's important neighbourhoods are H.B Town, Amarabati, Purbapalli,Ghola,Bankimpalli, Natagarh in the eastern side of Rail Station while Govt. Housing Estate, Peerless nagar Panihati,etc. in the Western side of Rail Station.

Economy

Most of the people of Sodepur are service personal either in Government sector or in semi government sector or in private sectors. There are many shops where some people are employed. Though educational level of sodepur is high about > 78% literate at graduate or Secondary level standard the unemployment rate is also high as there are no industries there.

History

Sodepur in the Barrackpore sub division, is historically famous for the Khadi Prathistan where historic decisions with regard to freedom struggle were taken by Gandhiji and other great leaders like Subhas Chandra Bose. In 1921, Satish Chandra Dasgupta, eminent chemist, resigned from Bengal Chemicals influenced by the Gandhian thought of Swadeshi and set up the Ashram . This ashram near the Sodepur Railway Station has a special place in the history of the Indian independence movement. Gandhi termed this ashram as his second home and stayed at this Ashram at various times 1939, 1945, 1946, 1947 and lived here for five to seven weeks. Sodepur is Mostly occupied by the people those were uprooted from Bangladesh (East Pakistan) and those came as refugee in Bangladesh War. Majority of the population of sodepur in its eastern side of rail station migrated as refugees of Bangladesh at present either from division of Bengal in 1947 or during the war of Bangladesh. They were settled either by purchasing lands or having lands from government mostly concentrated at Bankimpalli, Natagarh, Ghola areas as an effort of Mr. Bholanath Bhattacharya of Purbapalli and late Gopal Das. sodepur is the castle of CPM party since long years and continues till this days Sodepur has a new police station of its own though mostly controlled under Khardaha Police station

References

External links

* [http://www.sodepurbazar.com Sodepur Bazar website]

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