Batanagar
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Batanagar বাটানগর |
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| Town | |
 Batanagar
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| Coordinates: 22°17′N 88°07′E / 22.29°N 88.11°ECoordinates: 22°17′N 88°07′E / 22.29°N 88.11°E | |
| Country |
 India
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| State | West Bengal |
| District | South 24 Parganas |
| Government | |
| • Body | Nagar Palika |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Bengali, English |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| Website | s24pgs |
Batanagar is a town in South 24 Parganas district in the state of West Bengal, India. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. It is one of the places named after the multinational shoe company Bata. There is a plant of the Bata company here. The employees mostly reside in Batanagar.
Batanagar was established to start the first shoe factory in India by Czechoslovak industrialist Tomas Bata. The Bata brand was established on August 24, 1894 in Zlín, then in Austria-Hungary (now in Czech Republic). The company first established itself in India in 1931 by renting a building to start an experimental shoe production plant in Konnagar, West Bengal with 75 Czechoslovak experts. Jan Antonin Bata then built up an industrial manufacturing city called Batanagar in 1934, as well as other factories in Digha and Patna, and elsewhere in India, employing more than 7,000 people. Later Batanagar became one of the bigger suburban towns near Kolkata.
Batanagar lies on the right bank of the river Ganges. Nungi or Nangi, the nearest rail station, is 23 km from Sealdah on the Sealdah-Budge Budge section of Eastern Railway.and just 9 km from Taratala.
Not only the Bata India Shoe factory, another very remarkable feature of Batanagar, is that shoe-making is a predominant cottage industry in Batanagar. Countless houses and families are dedicated to manufacturing shoes of various makes - leather, PVC, jute, etc. for some of the leading shoe brands in India. For example, - Khadim's , SreeLeathers, Titas and Liberty which are some of the most renowned shoe makers in India, have outsourced a major portion of their shoe making process to the various entities in Batanagar. Every alternate home in Batanagar houses a small unit which is manufacturing shoes.
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