Haripal is a village in Haripal CD Block in

Chandannagore subdivision Chandannagore subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the Hooghly district in the state of West Bengal, India. Overview A major portion of Chandannagore subdivision is part of the Hooghly-Damodar Plain, the agriculturally rich alluvial ...

of Hooghly district in the

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Geography

Location

Haripal is located at .

Police station

Haripal police station has jurisdiction over Haripal CD Block.

CD block HQ

The headquarters of Haripal CD block are located at Khamarchandi.

Urbanisation

In Chandannagore subdivision 58.52% of the population is rural and the urban population is 41.48%. Chandannagore subdivision has 1 municipal corporation, 3 municipalities and 7 census towns. The single municipal corporation is

Chandernagore Municipal Corporation Chandernagore Municipal Corporation or CMC is the local government that governs the city of Chandannagar in Chandannagore subdivision of Hooghly district, West Bengal, India. History Chandannagore Municipality was established in 1955, as per t ...

. The municipalities are Tarakeswar Municipality, Bhadreswar Municipality and

Champdany Municipality Champdany Municipality is the civic body that governs Champdani and its surrounding areas in Chandannagore subdivision of Hooghly district, West Bengal, India. History Champdany Municipality was established in 1917. Geography Champdany Municip ...

. Of the three CD Blocks in Chandannagore subdivision, Tarakeswar CD Block is wholly rural, Haripal CD Block is predominantly rural with just 1 census town, and Singur CD Block is slightly less rural with 6 census towns. Polba Dadpur and Dhaniakhali CD Blocks of Chinsurah subdivision (included in the map alongside) are wholly rural. The municipal areas are industrialised. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

Demographics

As per

2011 Census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information ...

Haripal had a total population of 3,395 of which 1,717 (51%) were males and 1,678 (49%) were females. Population below 6 years was 294. The total number of literates in Haripal was 2,704 (87.20% of the population over 6 years). There are certain villages (2011 census figures in brackets) such as Chandinagar (1,601), Raghubati (1,047), Aminpur (1,454), Khamar Chandi (3,320) and Gopinagar (4,512), with independent identity in census records, adjacent to Haripal and have practically become part of Haripal.

Economy

Around a total of 32 lakh people from all around the city commute to Kolkata daily for work. In the Howrah-Goghat section via Tarakeswar, there are 48 trains that carry commuters from 21 railway stations.

Education

Vivekananda Mahavidyalaya, Haripal Vivekananda Mahavidyalaya, established in 1966, is one of the oldest colleges in Haripal, in the Hooghly district, West Bengal, India. It offers undergraduate courses in arts, commerce and sciences. It is affiliated to University of Burdwan. ...

, a general degree college, was established by renowned freedom fighter

Dharanath Bhattacharya Dharanath Bhattacharya (1882 – 12 December 1968) was a Bengali activist of Indian independence movement and social worker. Revolutionary activities Bhattacharya was born in 1882 in Khulna District, British India in a ''Gurukul'' family. His fath ...

at Haripal in 1966. It is affiliated with the

University of Burdwan The University of Burdwan (also known as Burdwan University or B. U.) is a public university in Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal, India. It was established by the West Bengal Government as a teaching and affiliating university on 15 June 1960 with ...

and offers honours courses in Bengali, English, Sanskrit, history, political science, philosophy, geography, education, mathematics, physics, computer science, nutrition, zoology, botany and accountancy. Haripal Guru Dayal Institution, a higher secondary school from class 5 to 12 that teaches all the streams. Science, Arts, and Commerce are located at Haripal and Tirthabasi Girls Higher Secondary School (for girls only), while Arts is located in Borobazar, Haripal. Basudevpur Vidyamandir located in Basudevpur Haripal .These institutes cater mostly to the students of Haripal.

Culture

Dwarika Chandi temple at Dwarhatta was established in 1126. As it was damaged over the years, it was thoroughly renovated. Virtually all terracotta decorations have been vanished. Dwarhatta is in the Haripal PS area and stands on the Haripal-Jangipara Road. David J. McCutchion describes several temples at Dwarhatta and Haripal:McCutchion, David J., ''Late Mediaeval Temples of Bengal'', first published 1972, reprinted 2017, pages 15, 33 & 73, 34-35, 44, 48, 75. The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, *Rare examples of pancharatna temples with slender turrets at Dwarhatta and Haripal *Radha-Govinda temple (1654) at Haripal is an atchala temple with a

porch A porch (from Old French ''porche'', from Latin ''porticus'' "colonnade", from ''porta'' "passage") is a room or gallery located in front of an entrance of a building. A porch is placed in front of the facade of a building it commands, and form ...

attached *Raj-Rajeswar temple (1728) at Dwarhatta having atchala with porch on triple archway has tight scroll work above the archways but figures along the base and round the

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*Little

Shiva Shiva (; sa, शिव, lit=The Auspicious One, Śiva ), also known as Mahadeva (; ɐɦaːd̪eːʋɐ, or Hara, is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. He is the Supreme Being in Shaivism, one of the major traditions within Hindu ...

temple at Haripal is a pancharatna rekha deul with a tall turret *Pancharatna temples with ridged rekha turrets at Dwarhatta and Haripal have facades fully decorated with figures *Snan-mandir of Radha-Govinda has mild decorations

Transport

Bus

Private Bus

* 9 Haripal railway station -

Udaynarayanpur Udaynarayanpur is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Uluberia subdivision of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Udaynarayanpur is located at . Udaynarayanpur CD Block is b ...

* 9A Haripal railway station - Bargachia * 10 Haripal railway station -

* 18 Haripal railway station - Chunchura Court * 18A Haripal railway station - Dasghara

Bus Routes Without Numbers

Jangipara Jangipara is a village in Jangipara CD Block in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Jangipara is located at . Police station Jangipara police station has jurisdiction over the ...

- Chunchura Court

Train

Haripal railway station of

Tarakeswar Tarakeswar (pronounced ''Tarokeshwar'') is a famous sacred city and a municipality in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Tarakeswar is called "Babar Dham" or "The city of Shiva". It is one of the major tourist and holy place ...

- Seoraphuli section serves the locality.

References

{{Hooghly District Villages in Hooghly district