Bamanhat is a
neighbourhood
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and a
gram panchayat in the
Dinhata II CD block in the
Dinhata subdivision of the
Cooch Behar district,
West Bengal
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,
India
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.
Geography
Location
Bamanhat is located at .
Bamanhat I and Bamanhat II are gram panchayats in Dinhata II CD block.
Bamanhat is not identified as a separate inhabited settlement in the 2011 census record. As per map of Dinhata II map in the ''District Census Handbook 2011, Koch Bihar'' it appears to be a part of Kalamati village/ mouza.
Area overview
The map alongside shows the eastern part of the district. In Tufanganj subdivision 6.97% of the population lives in the urban areas and 93.02% lives in the rural areas. In Dinhata subdivision 5.98% of the population lives in the urban areas and 94.02% lives in the urban areas.
The entire district forms the flat
alluvial flood plains of mighty rivers.
Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivisions. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
Education
Bamanhat High School is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1970.
Culture
Bamanhat also has the Madhaikhal fair, held annually in the Bengali month of Chaitra.
Railway links
Bamanhat railway station is on the broad gauge
Alipurduar-Bamanhat branch line. Local trains link the area to larger stations at Cooch Behar and Alipurduar from where trains are available for places all over the country.
In the early 1900s,
Eastern Bengal Railway extended the
Metre gauge railways to
Lalmonirhat,
Gitaldaha (via
Mogalhat),
Bamanhat,
Golokganj and other places, thereby connecting Assam to Katihar, in Bihar. In 1901
Cooch Behar State Railway built the
narrow gauge
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Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with Minimum railw ...
line from Gitaldaha to
Jayanti, near the Bhutan border. Shortly thereafter, the line was upgraded to metre gauge. During the British era, there was a railway line linking Assam with Bengal that passed through
Sonahat.
The partition of the country and formation of the erstwhile East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) led to complete severance of communication with the State of Assam from the rest of India.
The 72 km long
Alipurduar-Bamanhat branch line was converted to
broad gauge
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Broad gauge of , more known as Russian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in former Soviet Union countries ...
in 2007.
Healthcare
Bamanhat Rural Hospital, with 30 beds at Bamanhat, is the major government medical facility in the Dinhata II CD block.
References
{{Cooch Behar District
Villages in Cooch Behar district