34-586: Jadavpur University Campus Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Salt Lake City Campus of Jadavpur University , Jadavpur , Bengal . The ground is mainly used for organizing matches of football, cricket and other sports. The main ground at the Salt Lake campus has been leased out to the Cricket Association of Bengal and it often plays host to inter- and intrastate cricket matches. The stadium
68-419: A key role in the economic health of the city area. As of April 2019, Sector V of Bidhannagar had approx 1,500 company. The East Kolkata Wetlands is recognized as a Ramsar site , located within the city limits of Bidhannagar. The city is named after Bidhan Chandra Roy , the founder of Salt Lake area of the city, the second Premier of West Bengal (1948–1950) and The first Chief Minister of West Bengal . At
102-580: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bidhannagar, Kolkata Bidhannagar ( ISO : Bidhānanagar ), also known as Salt Lake City is a city and a municipal corporation of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal . It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). During the Salt Satyagraha , the people of Mahishbathan between present day Salt Lake and Rajarhat Newtown joined
136-463: Is a maze of many river branches, the area is difficult to pass. Most islands are only connected with the mainland by simple wooden ferryboats. Bridges are rare. Some islands are not yet connected to the electric grid, so island residents tend to use solar cells for a bit of electric supply. Arsenic is a naturally occurring substance in the Ganga Delta that has detrimental effects on health and may enter
170-593: Is also an important activity in the delta region, with fish being a major source of food for many of the people in the area. In the last decades of the 20th century, scientists helped the poor people of the delta to improve fish farming methods. By turning unused ponds into viable fish farms and improving methods of raising fish in existing ponds, many people can now earn a living raising and selling fish. Using new systems, fish production in existing ponds has increased 800%. Shrimp are farmed in containers or cages that are submerged in open water. Most are exported. As there
204-454: Is an oceanic dolphin which enters the delta from the Bay of Bengal. The Ganges river dolphin is a true river dolphin , but is extremely rare and considered endangered . Trees found in the delta include sundari , garjan ( Rhizophora spp.), bamboo , mangrove palm ( Nypa fruticans ), and mangrove date palm ( Phoenix paludosa ). The Ganges Delta lies at the junction of three tectonic plates:
238-627: Is estimated that 30,000 chital ( Axis axis ) are in the Sundarbans part of the delta. Birds found in the delta include kingfishers , eagles , woodpeckers , the shalik ( Acridotheres tristis ), the swamp francolin ( Francolinus gularis ), and the doel ( Copsychus saularis ). Two species of dolphin can be found in the delta: the Irrawaddy dolphin ( Orcaella brevirostris ) and the Ganges river dolphin ( Platanista gangetica gangetica ). The Irrawaddy dolphin
272-525: Is good for agriculture. It is composed of a labyrinth of channels , swamps , lakes, and flood plain sediments (chars). The Gorai-Madhumati River , one of the distributaries of the Ganges, divides the Ganges Delta into two parts: the geologically young, active, eastern delta, and the older, less active, western delta. Around 280 million (180 million Bangladesh and 100 million West Bengal, India) people live on
306-602: Is under the administration of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation . Keeping with its original name, it is commonly referred to as Salt Lake City. Bidhannagar's architecture has modern landmarks, such as the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan or Salt Lake Stadium. The city is considered the main IT hub of Eastern India and Kolkata , West Bengal . Bidhannagar is located on the north-east side of Kolkata. The Nabadiganta Industrial area of Bidhannagar has always played
340-416: The 14,600 square kilometres (5,600 sq mi) protected. Where the delta meets the Bay of Bengal, Sundarbans mangroves form the world's largest mangrove ecoregion, covering an area of 20,400 square kilometres (7,900 sq mi) in a chain of 54 islands. They derive their name from the predominant mangrove species, Heritiera fomes , which are known locally as sundri or sundari . Animals in
374-488: The East India Company , and related these practices to major ecological changes wrought about by forest and land management practices. Debjani Bhattacharyya has shown how Calcutta was constructed as an urban centre through tracing ecological changes wrought upon by colonial powers involving land, water and humans throughout the mid-18th to the early 20th centuries. In terms of recent scholarship that focuses more on
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#1733085259898408-461: The Ganges River Basin, making it the most populous river basin in the world. Most of the Ganges Delta has a population density greater than 200/km (520 people per square mile), making it one of the most densely populated regions in the world. Three terrestrial ecoregions cover the delta. The Lower Gangetic plains moist deciduous forests ecoregion covers most of the delta region, although
442-766: The Ganges River . It is also one of the most fertile regions in the world, thus earning the nickname the Green Delta . The delta stretches from the Hooghly River in the west as far as the Meghna River in the east. The Ganges Delta has the shape of a triangle and is considered to be an "arcuate" (arc-shaped) delta. It covers more than 105,000 km (41,000 sq mi) and lies mostly in Bangladesh and India, with rivers from Bhutan , Tibet , and Nepal draining into it from
476-745: The Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta , the Sundarbans Delta or the Bengal Delta ) is a river delta predominantly covering the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent , consisting of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal . It is the world's largest river delta and it empties into the Bay of Bengal with the combined waters of several river systems , mainly those of the Brahmaputra River and
510-723: The Indian Plate , the Eurasian Plate , and the Burma Plate . The edge of the Eocene paleoshelf runs approximately from Kolkata to the edge of the Shillong Plateau . The edge of the paleoshelf marks the transition from the thick continental crust in the northwest to the thin continental or oceanic crust in the southeast. The enormous sediment supply from the Himalayan collision has extended
544-513: The Kolkata Metro is in operation since 14 February 2020, now connects Salt Lake Sector V and Sealdah. The New Garia – Dum Dum Airport Line ( Line 6 ) of the Kolkata Metro , which passes through the Salt Lake Bypass, is under-construction with cost inflation and delays. Schools in Salt Lake include the: Catholic schools include: Ganges Delta The Ganges Delta (also known
578-400: The food chain , especially in key crops such as rice. The Ganges Delta lies mostly in the tropical wet climate zone, and receives between 1,500 to 2,000 mm (59 to 79 in) of rainfall each year in the western part, and 2,000 to 3,000 mm (79 to 118 in) in the eastern part. . Hot, dry summers and cool, dry winters make the climate suitable for agriculture. In November 1970,
612-474: The 2011 census, Bidhannagar Municipality had a population of 218,323 (males 111,363; females 106,960) in an area of approximately 13.16 square km with a density of about 16,590 persons per square kilometre. However, the area of Bidhannagar Municipality was 33.50 square km (much bigger than Salt Lake City) because it includes East Kolkata Wetlands area, where very few floating people live. Bidhannagar Municipality has an average literacy rate of 90.44% (higher than
646-577: The Bengal/Ganges delta is that most of the scholarship is limited to the 18th to the 21st centuries, with a general dearth of ecological history of the region prior to the 18th century. One of the greatest challenges people living on the Ganges Delta may face in coming years is the threat of rising sea levels caused by climate change . An increase in sea level of 0.5 metres (1 ft 8 in) could result in six million people losing their homes in Bangladesh. Important gas reserves have been discovered in
680-620: The Salt Satyagraha movement by preparing salt using indigenous methods. The main initiator of the movement was Lakshmikant Pramanik, the zamindar of Mahishbathan . Bidhannagar's Salt lake is a planned region of Kolkata . It was planned and developed between 1958 and 1965 to accommodate the burgeoning population of Kolkata . Bidhannagar's Master Planner and Chief Architect was Dobrivoje Toskovic from SFR Yugoslavia , now Serbia . Bidhannagar (including Salt lake) in Kolkata metropolitan area
714-640: The city's 6 boroughs, which together encompass 41 wards. Each ward elects a councilor to the BMC. Each borough has a committee of councillors, each of whom is elected to represent a ward. By means of the borough committees, the corporation undertakes urban planning and maintains roads, government-aided schools, hospitals, and municipal markets. The functions of the KMC include water supply, drainage and sewerage, sanitation, solid waste management, street lighting, and building regulation. Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority (NDITA)
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#1733085259898748-486: The deadliest tropical cyclone of the twentieth century hit the Ganges Delta region. The 1970 Bhola cyclone killed 500,000 people (official death toll), with another 100,000 missing. The Guinness Book of World Records estimated the total loss of human life from the Bhola cyclone at 1,000,000. Another cyclone hit the delta in 1991, killing about 139,000 people. It also left many people homeless. People have to be careful on
782-413: The delta about 400 kilometres (250 mi) seaward since the Eocene . The sediment thickness southeast of the edge of the paleoshelf beneath the Ganges Delta can exceed 16 km (9.9 mi). Approximately two-thirds of the Bangladesh people work in agriculture and grow crops on the fertile floodplains of the delta. The major crops that are grown in the Ganges Delta are jute , tea, and rice. Fishing
816-508: The delta include the Indian python ( Python molurus ), clouded leopard ( Neofelis nebulosa ), Indian elephant ( Elephas maximus indicus ) and crocodiles , which live in the Sundarbans. Approximately 1,020 endangered Bengal tigers ( Panthera tigris tigris ) are believed to inhabit the Sundarbans. The Ganges–Brahmaputra basin has tropical deciduous forests that yield valuable timber: sal , teak , and peepal trees are found in these areas. It
850-477: The delta, despite risks from floods caused by monsoons , heavy run-off from the melting snows of the Himalayas , and North Indian Ocean tropical cyclones . A large part of the nation of Bangladesh lies in the Ganges Delta; many of the country's people depend on the delta for survival. It is believed that upwards of 300 million people are supported by the Ganges Delta; approximately 400 million people live in
884-677: The eastern part of the Bengal/Ganges Delta, Iftekhar Iqbal argues for the inclusion of the Bengal Delta as an ecological framework within which to study the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine, especially throughout the colonial period. Iqbal has tried to show how resistance movements such as the Faraizi movement can be studied in relation to colonial ecological management practices. A strong criticism of environmental history scholarship with regards to
918-504: The forests have mostly been cleared for agriculture and only small enclaves remain. Thick stands of tall grass, known as canebrakes, grow in wetter areas. The Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests ecoregion lies closer to the Bay of Bengal; this ecoregion is flooded with slightly brackish water during the dry season, and fresh water during the monsoon season. These forests, too, have been almost completely converted to intensive agriculture, with only 130 square kilometres (50 sq mi) of
952-429: The national average of 74%), with male literacy of 93.08% and female literacy of 87.69%. Salt Lake is located in the southeastern part of West Bengal. The city area sits within the lower Ganges Delta of eastern India. The Salt Lake area of Kolkata city was formed by land reclamation, which was done in the 1950s and 1960s to accommodate the growing population. Salt Lake is located on the north eastern area of Kolkata ,
986-474: The north. 67% of the delta is inside Bangladesh and only 33% belongs to West Bengal. Most of the delta is composed of alluvial soils made up by small sediment particles that finally settle down as river currents slowdown in the estuary. Rivers carry these fine particles with them, even from their sources at glaciers as fluvio-glacial . Red and red-yellow laterite soils are found as one heads farther east. The soil has large amounts of minerals and nutrients, which
1020-538: The river delta as severe flooding also occurs. In 1998, the Ganges flooded the delta, killing about 1,000 people and leaving more than 30 million people homeless. The Bangladesh government asked for $ 900 million to help feed the people of the region, as the entire rice crop was lost. The history of the Bengal delta has been a concern of emerging scholarship by environmental historians. Indian historian Vinita Damodaran has extensively profiled famine management practices by
1054-504: The state capital; 65.2 kilometres (40.5 mi) west of Ghojadanga , a border checkpoint; and 128 kilometres (80 mi) north of Bakkhali . According to the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation , the city area has a total area of 55.51 square kilometres (21.43 sq mi), with approx 30.51 square kilometres (11.78 sq mi) of it being land, and approx 25 square kilometres (9.7 sq mi), or 45.5% of
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1088-532: The total, being covered by water. It has an average elevation of 11 metres (49 ft). East Kolkata Wetlands lies across the southern part of the city. It is one of the two Ramsar sites in West Bengal, the other being the Sundarban Wetland . Bidhannagar is administered by several government agencies. The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation , or BMC, oversees and manages the civic infrastructure of
1122-856: Was created in January 2006. It supplies water; maintains sewerage, roads, street signals; furnishes important buildings and collects property tax and fees in Sector - V (excluded from the jurisdiction of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation ). The Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate is responsible for law enforcement in the city area. Out of 13 police stations of Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate, 9 police stations are engaged in controlling law and order in city area. The modes of transportation like other parts of Kolkata includes air conditioned/non-ac government/private buses, Yellow taxi and other popular options like auto rickshaw and e-rickshaws. The Howrah Maidan - Salt Lake Sector V - Teghoria (Haldiram) Line ( Line 2 ) of
1156-469: Was established in 2004 when the ground hosted Ranji Trophy match between Bengal cricket team and Karnataka cricket team Since then, it hosted four more First-class cricket matches. The stadium is regular host of List A and Twenty20 cricket matches This article about an Indian sports venue is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a cricket ground in India
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