Nischintapur is a village within the jurisdiction of the Kulpi police station in the Kulpi CD block in the

Diamond Harbour subdivision Diamond Harbour subdivision is an administrative subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Overview Diamond Harbour subdivision is a rural subdivision with patches of urbanization. Only 14.61% of the populat ...

of the

South 24 Parganas South 24 Parganas (Pron: pɔrɡɔnɔs; abbr. 24 PGS (S)), or sometimes South Twenty Four Parganas and Dakshin 24 Parganas, is a district in the Indian state of West Bengal, headquartered in Alipore previously, with its Zilla Parishad now in Ba ...

district in the

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Geography

Nischintapur is located at . It has an average elevation of .

Transport

Nischintapur is on the National Highway 12.Google maps Nischintapur and Nischintapur Market railway stations are on the Sealdah–Namkhana line of the

Kolkata Suburban Railway The Kolkata Suburban Railway (colloquially called Kolkata local trains or simply locals) is a suburban rail, suburban and regional rail system serving the Kolkata metropolitan area and its surroundings in West Bengal, India. Its network has 45 ...

system.

Commuters

With the electrification of the railways, suburban traffic has grown tremendously since the 1960s. As of 2005-06, more than 1.7 million (17 lakhs) commuters use the

system daily. After the partition of India, refugees from erstwhile East Pakistan and Bangladesh had a strong impact on the development of urban areas in the periphery of Kolkata. The new immigrants depended on Kolkata for their livelihood, thus increasing the number of commuters. Eastern Railway runs 1,272 EMU trains daily.

Healthcare

Kulpi Block Primary Health Centre, with 15 beds, at Kulpi, is the major government medical facility in the Kulpi CD block.

References

Villages in South 24 Parganas district {{South24Parganas-geo-stub