Kharagpur :Mini India

Kharagpur :Mini India

Kharagpur  is associate industrial city in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, India. At Kharagpur is one amongst the distinguished Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), and one amongst the largest railway workshops in Asian country with the third longest railway platform within the world (1072.5 m).Kharagpur has associate Air Force station in Kalaikunda and it additionally has an extra Air force radar station in Salua.

The name of Kharagpur derived from the name of Shiva temple of  ‘Khargeswar’ settled at Kharagpur. The Temple was established by King Kharag Singh Pal and was named once him. The place of Kharagpur has mythological importance too. As represented in Mahabharat, this space was dominated by the Demon King Hiramba. Pancha Pandavas spent a locality of their return years here. Bhim had fallen gaga with Hirimba, sister of Hiramba. It had been believed that Hiramba was killed by Bhim at constant place wherever Khargeswar Temple is found.

Historically, Kharagpur was a locality of the Hijli Kingdom and dominated by Hindu Oriya rulers as a feudatory beneath Gajapati Kings of Orissa. Historians claim that within the sixteenth century, Kharagpur was still alittle village encircled by dense forests. The village was on high rocky barren land. The sole inhabited  settlement close to Kharagpur was Hijli. Hijli was a little island village on the banks of stream Rasulpur within the delta of Bay of geographical region. It developed into a port city in 1687. Hijli was additionally a Province and was breathing until 1886. It lined components of geographical region and Orissa. It had necessary cities like Tamluk, Panskura, Debra in conjunction with Kelghai & Haldi rivers on the north, south and east sides finite by Bay of geographical region and Kharagpur, Keshiary, Dantan and Jaleswar on the west.

Culture:

Kharagpur could be a place wherever folks from each faith and caste from everywhere the country reside. Kharagpur still retains its small-town charm. Moving-picture show theaters embody "Bombay Talkies", "Aurora", "Sitala", "South Cinema" etc. Bombay Cimema is currently equipped with digital projection and surrounds system.

Places of worship embody a "Durga Mandir" at Gole Bazar, Sitala Mandir at Puratan Bazar, "Jagannath Mandir" close to Gate Bazar, "Church" at Golebazar,"Gurudwara" at Subhaspally and one at Nimpura, "Masjid" close to Gole Bazar, and a number of other temples and churches. The foremost noted festivals here square measure Hindu deity Puja, Hindu deity Puja, Saraswati Puja, Kali Puja and Ammavaari Puja, etc. Also Raas, and Mata Puja is conducted in a very year by locals within the whole railway colony. Rath Mela celebrated close to the premises of Jagannatha Temple. However the most important pageant of all is that the Dussehra" or "Ravan Pora.

Kharagpur even have its own bookfair referred to as "Kharagpur-er Boimela" in Bengali,which started from 2000 and happen in Gregorian calendar month once a year. A Flower honest ("Ful Mela" in Bengali) is additionally organized once a year.