Sahana is a village in
Chanditala II community development block of
Srirampore subdivision in
Hooghly district
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in the
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state
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of
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Geography
Sahana is located at . Chanditala police station serves this Village.
Gram panchayat
Villages and census towns in Kapasaria
gram panchayat are:
Kapashanria,
Okardaha, Sahana,
Sanka
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History
Decaffeinated coffee was developed in 1903 (see Dec ...
and
Tisa.
Demographics
As per
2011 Census of India, Sahana had a total population of 1,944 of which 921 (47%) were males and 1,023 (53%) were females. Population below 6 years was 263. The total number of literates in Sahana was 1,340 (79.71% of the population over 6 years).
Transport
The nearest railway station,
Baruipara railway station
Baruipara railway station is a railway station in Baruipara, a small town on the Howrah–Barddhaman chord line and is located in Hooghly district of the Indian state of West Bengal. The station is from Howrah and is a part of the Kolkata Su ...
, is from Howrah on the
Howrah-Bardhaman chord line and is a part of the
Kolkata Suburban Railway
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system.
The main road is
NH-19 (old number NH 2)/ Durgapur Exptressway. It is the main artery of the village.
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References
Villages in Hooghly district
Villages in Chanditala II CD Block
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