Gopalnagar is a village in

Singur Singur is a census town in Singur CD Block in Chandannagore subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Singur is located at . It has an average elevation of 14 metres (45 ft), and is si ...

CD Block in

Hooghly district Hooghly district () is one of the districts of the Indian state of West Bengal. It can alternatively be spelt ''Hoogli'' or ''Hugli''. The district is named after the Hooghly River. The headquarters of the district are at Hooghly-Chinsura ('' ...

in the

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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 four ...

, India.

Geography

Gopalnagar is located at .

Demographics

As per the 2011 Census of India Gopalnagar had a total population of 12,232 of which 6,278 (51%) were males and 5,954 (49%) were females. Population below 6 years was 933. The total number of literates in Gopalnagar was 9,901 (87.63% of the population over 6 years).

Economy

Tata Motors at Singur

Singur gained international media attention since

Tata Motors Tata Motors Limited is an Indian multinational automotive manufacturing company, headquartered in Mumbai, India, which is part of the Tata Group. The company produces passenger cars, trucks, vans, coaches, buses. Formerly known as Tata En ...

started constructing a factory to manufacture their $2,500 car, the

Tata Nano The Tata Nano is a compact city car that was manufactured and marketed by Indian automaker Tata Motors over a single generation, primarily in India, as an inexpensive rear-engined hatchback intended to appeal to current riders of motorcycles ...

at Singur. The small car was scheduled to roll out of the factory by 2008. In October 2008 Tatas announced withdrawal from the project. Six villages – Bajemelia, Beraberi, Gopalnagar, Joymolla, Khaser Bheri and Sinher Bheri – were affected by land acquisition. In 2016, the Supreme Court quashed the West Bengal government’s acquisition of 997 acres of agricultural land for Tata Motors and ordered its return to 9,117 landowners.

Education

Gopalnagar High School is a coeducational higher secondary school, established in 1962 at PO Gopalnagar Harharia. It has arrangements for teaching Bengali, English, history, geography, political science, economics and mathematics.

Transport

Singur railway station Singur railway station is a Kolkata Suburban Railway station on the Sheoraphuli–Tarakeswar branch line of Howrah railway division of the Eastern Railway zone. It is situated beside State Highway 2, Burasanti at Singur in Hooghly district in the ...

is the nearest railway station.

References

Villages in Hooghly district {{Hooghly-geo-stub