Chittaranjan is a railway town on the bound of the Indian states of Jharkhand and West Bengal. The town is called afterwards the Indian freedom fighter, Chittaranjan Das The town of Chittaranjan is on the West Bengal subsidiary of the adjuncent border. The town on the Jharkhand ancillary is accepted as Mihijam. The commuter abuse arch confined Chittaranjan is in Mihijam.
This breadth lies amid two boss rivers - the Damodar and the Ajay. They breeze about alongside to anniversary added in the arena - the boilerplate ambit amid the two rivers is about 30 km. For ages the breadth was heavily forested and infested with plunderers and marauders. The analysis of atramentous led to industrialisation of the breadth and a lot of of the forests accept been cleared.
Chittaranjan is able-bodied accepted for Chittaranjan Adaptable Works (CLW), which articles mainline electric ample barometer locomotives. This branch commenced assembly in 1950; and up to 1972, it was complex in the assembly of Ample Barometer & Metre Barometer Steam Locomotives such as WG, WP (Broad Barometer appurtenances & passenger) and YP, YG (Metre Barometer appurtenances & passenger). Assembly of Electric Locomotives commenced in 1963 (with abstruse abetment of SNCF of France), if the backward Sri Jawaharlal Nehru, again Prime Minister Of India, committed the aboriginal mainline Ample Barometer Electric Adaptable blue-blooded 'BIDHAN' and of the chic WAG1 to the nation.
How to ability chittaranjan
Train casework are accessible from Howrah Station, via Durgapur and Asansol. Buses leave Calcutta from the Shahid Minar terminus. Passage to Chittaranjan takes seven and bisected hours from Calcutta. Both clandestine and government buses are accessible from Bardhaman. The path from Bardhaman takes three and bisected hours.
AttractionsRailway engines are bogus at Chittaranjan Adaptable Works. This is India's better adaptable factory, bearing agent and electric locomotives. Visitors may yield a attending at the workshops alone on weekdays, afterwards accepting permits from the Administrative Officer.
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