Rajarhat Kolkata – New Town

Rajarhat also called Rajarhat Gopalpur or New Town, Kolkata, located in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, is one of India’s latest and fastest-growing planned new cities.

Rajarhat kolkata is situated at the Greater Calcutta area in the Indian state of West Bengal, and near the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in Calcutta. Many high-profile industrialists of national and international standing are investing in the township with the cooperation of the Government of West Bengal, to make it one of India’s major industrial hubs.

The place is already known for being one of the most impressive information technology and computer engineering hubs of India after the Indian silicon valley of Bangalore. The Government of West Bengal, along with some private and public sector companies, is working on providing the township with latest infrastructure and amenities to make it an ideal and happening industrial and residential township.

This new industrial and residential hub is being developed on the north-eastern fringes on Calcutta, the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. It consists of the two erstwhile villages Rajarhat and Gopalpur, which is now a city and municipality named ‘Rajarhat Gopalpur‘. The area mainly consisted of huge acres of cultivable lands and water bodies. The process of investing for residential and industrial facilities and infrastructural development of the area has mainly started under the leadership of present Chief Minister of West Bengal Buddhadeb Bhattacharya in the late 1990s.

The governmental master plan envisions a township here at least three times bigger than the neighbouring planned Salt Lake city of Bidhannagar. According to governmental proposals, the township will be extended up to the extreme south of the state, i.e., up to the Sunderbans near the Bay of Bengal.