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Ashokenagar Kalyangarh (Bengali: অশোকনগর কল্যাণগড়) is a city and a municipality under Ashoknagar police station of Barasat sadar subdivision〔(District-wise list of statutory towns )〕 in North 24 Parganas district in the state of West Bengal, India. Ashokenagar has a heritage of political consciousness, education and cultural movements. Ashokenagar Kalyangarh was planned by Dr. B.C Roy and later named after the leader Ashoke Kumar Sen. Principal architects of Ashokenagar Kalyanagarh were late Congress leader Tarun Kanti Ghosh, late congress leader Keshab Bhattacharjee, late CPI leader Dr. Sadhan Sen and late CPI(M) leader Nani Kar. The area has two parks - Sanghati Park and Millennium Science Park. It has a degree college, two hospitals, a nursing home, several high schools, several nursery & kindergarten (K.G) schools, several primary schools, an engineering and management institution, two community halls and many sub-community halls. There are a stadium, a picnic garden, two swimming pools and three multi gyms. There are two English medium schools in Ashokenagar. The area is well connected to Kolkata through rail and road networks. Some of the schools of the locality include Ashokenagar Banipith Girls' High School, Ashokenagar Adarsha Balika Vidyalaya, Ashokenagar Boys' Secondary School, Kalyangarh Vidyamandir for Boys, Kalyangarh Balika Bidyalaya. Ashokenagar has the Kalyani Spinning Mill. It previously had a unit of RIC and a chemicals factory both of which were closed down by the state government. ==History== In the British period it was a Royal Air Force (RAF) station, an airfield. It played host to airlines, and til todayt four hangars of the RAF still stand. After Independence Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, the then CM of West Bengal developed that airfield to a planned city. Formerly this place was known as "Habra Urban Colony". Later its north-east portion was named "Kalyangarh" and then its south-west portion was named "Ashokenagar". This place known as Miniaturisation or tiny edition of Bangladesh 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ashoknagar, North 24 Parganas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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