Chamrail is a

census town In India and some other countries, a census town is designated as a town that satisfies certain characteristics. India In India, a census town is one which is not statutorily notified and administered as a town, but nevertheless whose population ...

Bally Jagachha Bally Jagachha is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Howrah Sadar subdivision of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Ghoshpara is located at . Bally Jagachha CD Block is bo ...

CD Block of

Howrah Sadar subdivision Howrah Sadar subdivision is a subdivision of the Howrah district in the state of West Bengal, India. It consists of Howrah municipal corporation and five community development blocs: Bally Jagacha, Domjur, Panchla, Sankrail and Jagatballavpur. Th ...

in Howrah district in the

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n state of

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...

. It is a part of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration. Chamrail is under the jurisdiction of Liluah Police Station of

Howrah City Police , mission = , formedyear = 2011 , formedmonthday = 1 September , preceding1 = , dissolved = , superseding = , employees = Commissioner of Police Deputy commissioners Additional Deputy Commissioner ...

. Chamrail is famous for the historical Brambha Vishnu Maheshwara puja. This puja was established in the year 1889 by Narayan Chandra Chakraborty and some other people of chamrail. This puja is the oldest puja of this village.

Geography

Ambikeswar Shiva Mandir - Ramdhan Mandal Establishment 1852-09-17 - Chamrail - Howrah 2015-03-08 6495

Chamrail High School in Chamrail, at Benaras Road 1

Chamrail is located at . It is situated between

Eksara Eksara is a census town in Bally Jagachha CD Block of Howrah Sadar subdivision in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration. Eksara is under the jurisdiction of Liluah Police Station of Ho ...

and Jagadishpur.

Demographics

As per

2011 Census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information ...

, Chamrail had a total population of 11,923 of which 6,083 (51%) were males and 5,840 (49%) were females. Population below 6 years was 1,197. The total number of literates in Chamrail was 9,278 (86.50% of the population over 6 years). India

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...

, Chamrail had a population of 8554. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Chamrail has an average literacy rate of 76%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with male literacy of 81% and female literacy of 71%. 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Transport

Benaras Road - Chamrail - Howrah 2013-08-24 1961

Benaras Road (part of State Highway 15) is the artery of the town.

Bus

Private Bus

* 57A Chanditala -

Howrah Station Howrah railway station, also known as Howrah Junction, is a railway station located in the city of Howrah, West Bengal, India. It is also the oldest and largest existing railway complex in India. It is one of the busiest train stations in the w ...

Mini Bus

* 30 Baluhati - Esplanade

Train

Kona railway station Kona railway station is a railway station on Santragachi–Amta branch line of South Eastern Railway section of the Kharagpur railway division. It is situated beside Benaras Road, Khaliya at Kona in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Be ...

is the nearest railway station on

Howrah Howrah (, , alternatively spelled as Haora) is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal. Howrah is located on the western bank of the Hooghly River opposite its twin city of Kolkata. Administratively it lies within Howrah district, and is th ...

Amta Amta is a census town in Amta I CD Block in Uluberia subdivision of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Amta is located at . Demographics As per 2011 Census of India Amta had a total population of 16,699 of which ...

line.

References

{{Howrah District Cities and towns in Howrah district Neighbourhoods in Kolkata Kolkata Metropolitan Area