Singhabad (also spelled Singabad) is a village in
Habibpur
Habibpur is a census town in Bhagalpur district in the Indian state of Bihar.
Demographics
India census
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CD block
In India, a Community development block (CD block) or simply Block is a sub-division of Tehsil, administratively earmarked for planning and development. The area is administered by a Block Development Officer (BDO), supported by several technic ...
in
Malda Sadar subdivision of
Malda district in the state of
West Bengal,
India. It is a railway transit point on the
Bangladesh-India border.
Geography
Location
Singhabad is located at .
Area overview
The area shown in the adjacent map covers two physiographic regions – the ''
Barind'' in the east and the ''tal'' in the west. The eastern part is comparatively high (up to 40 metres above mean sea level at places) and uneven. The soils of the eastern region are “hard salty clays of a reddish hue and the ground is baked hard as iron.” It lies to the east of the
Mahananda River. The area lying to the west of the Mahananda River, the ''tal'', is a flat low land and “is strewn with innumerable marshes,
bils and
oxbow lake
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s.” The ''tal'' area is prone to flooding by local rivers. The total area is overwhelmingly
rural. There are two important historical/ archaeological sites in the area –
Pandua and
Jagjivanpur.
Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the area. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
Singhabad-Rohanpur transit facility
It is an active transit facility point. The corresponding station on the Bangladesh side is
Rohanpur railway station
Rohanpur (also spelled Rahanpur) is a border railway station in Bangladesh, situated in Rohanpur, Nawabganj District, in Rajshahi Division. It is a functioning railway transit point on the Bangladesh-India border .
Rohanpur-Singhabad transit ...
in
Nawabganj District.
As per the Memorandum of Understanding entered into by Bangladesh and India on 15 August 1978 it was agreed to facilitate overland transit traffic between Bangladesh and Nepal. An addendum was made on 6 September 2011, to add new rail routes for facilitating overland transit traffic between Bangladesh and Nepal.
Bangladesh started export of fertilizer to Nepal utilizing the Rahanpur-Singhabad transit point in November 2011. The Singhabad-Rohanpur transit point allows through transport of goods from Raxaul in Nepal to Khulna in Bangladesh, without any transhipment, but is rarely used.
Land customs station
Singhabad has a land customs station for movement of goods by rail on the India-Bangladesh border.
Demographics
As per the
2011 Census of India
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, Singabad had a total population of 1,951, of which 1.023 (52%) were males and 928 (48%) were females. Population below 6 years was 306. The total number of literates in Singhabad was 1,158 (70.40% of the population over 6 years).
Transport
Singhabad railway station is on the Old Malda-Abdulpur line.
References
{{India–Bangladesh land border checkpoints
Villages in Malda district
Bangladesh–India border crossings