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'Howrah' (Bengali হাওড়া) (also spelled ''Haora'') is an industrial city in West Bengal, India. It is also the name of the Howrah administrative district which includes the city and its surroundings. It is on the west bank of the Hoogli River, and is Kolkata's twin city. It is West Bengal's second largest city. The two cities are linked by the famous Howrah Bridge (Rabindra Setu), as well as the Vidyasagar Setu (the ''second Howrah Bridge'') and the Vivekananda Setu bridges. The city also contains Howrah Station, one of the major train stations serving Kolkata as well as Howrah.

Contents

Geography

Demographics

History of Howrah

Economy

See also

References

External links

Geography

Howrah is located at ^[1]. It has an average elevation of 12 metres (39 feet).

Demographics

As of 2001 India census^[2], Howrah had a population of 1,008,704. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Howrah has an average literacy rate of 77%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 81%, and female literacy is 73%. In Howrah, 9% of the population is under 6 years of age.

History of Howrah

The name came from the word "haor" -- meaning in Bengali, a place for exit of water and mud.
It was back in 1713, The Bengal Council of British East India Company decided to lease five villages in this region from Farroq Shah (the grand son of Aurengzeb)
Among those 5 villages, "Howbra" was the largest one and in 1714 the lease agreement was concluded and the British East India Company marked this entire area as "Howrah" .
Today, Howrah is famous for Howrah Station, the terminus for trains to all parts of India and for the Howrah Bridge.
==Towns of Howrah==
There are many places of tourist interest in Howrah, notably the Belur Math in the eastern town of Belur.

Economy

Recently Howrah has seen a lot of industrial proposals like the kona truck terminus and logistic hub. Kolkata west international city and a reallocation of the foundry plants.
Still after all the improvement in the recent two decades the place is not free of the usual problems with howrah. The amount of road space to the population in howrah is too small compared to even smaller towns by populations like berhampur. Even though being the second largest urban area in the state the city saw almost no development in the last century. The emigrant labor force from the rest of the state's rural areas and neighbor states take refuge in the cheaper quarters in howrah bringing the already poor infra structure of the town to the brink of collaps. Many times reducing a locality to a poor infrastructure slum. The name of the novel novel city of joy which has been often the name the kolkata metropolis been called is actually based on one such slum in howrah. Recent activities like broadening the national highways and several towns roads will surely be a relief to the bottle necked connectivity of the town. New industrial proposals in the town along with the reallocation of smoky old foundry industry away from the city will bring a fresh breeze in the lungs of howrah

See also

References

1. Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Haora
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External links

★ http://www.haora.org - Volunteer Driven Portal of Howrah City

★ About Howrah

★ Kolkata(Calcutta) Portal

★ Howrah Connects : Connecting people of Howrah together

★ http://www.tourism-of-india.com/howrah.html

★ http://home.att.net/~dakku/cal5.html - Bridges of Calcutta

★ http://www.calcuttaweb.com/maps/howrah.htm - Map of Howrah

★ http://www.industryforyou.com - Industries in Howrah