A brief story of Chittaranjan Town.

Celebrate 60 year of CLW from 1950 to 2010

 

The gateway to enter the city from Jharkhand

     

Amusement Park

Approach Road toward WorksShop

Children's Park

Chittaranjan is well known for Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW), which manufactures mainline electric broad gauge locomotives.This railway town is situated on the border of the Indian states of Jharkhand and West Bengal. The town is named after the Indian freedom fighter, Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das.Nearest important railway junction is Asansol, 25 km away.And it is 234km away from Kolkata, The GT road or NH-2 passes 20 km south to Chittaranjan. By road it is well connected to Asansol (30 km). A unique feature of this place is that the railway station is located at Jharkhand state (name of the place- Mihijam, district: Jamtara) whereas the township is in West Bengal.In a total area of 18.3 km², Chittaranjan has 9,356 residential quarters, 1 hospital, 7 health units, 8 community halls, 22 railway schools and 18 non-railway schools. There is 1 college, 1 club, 1 Kendriya Vidyalaya school, 7 markets and 2 cinema halls.Chittaranjan, an ISO-14001 certified township has neatly arranged row-houses, broad and clean roads, lots of greenery and lakes. This township houses over 9300 quarters of various types and sizes for its employees of CLW. All these quarters are neatly grouped under various areas, with each area having its own Primary Health Unit (also known as a Dispensary), marketplace, school, community hall and playground. In addition to a dispensary in every area, CLW also has its own 200 bed Hospital - the Kasturba Hospital. A bird's eye view of a part of Chittaranjan Township can be had from Chittaranjan's own little hill resort - the dimunitive HillTop, located within the town limits. Chittaranjan also has two big playgrounds: The "Oval" ground and the "Srilata" Ground which holds various Sub-divisional tournaments. Chittaranjan has two multi-Sports Stadiums, two Swimming Pools, Basketball Court, Badminton Court, Lawn Tennis Court, many Football Grounds, a Gymnasium and one indoor stadium.

Chittaranjan has two movie theaters - Ranjan Cinema and Srilata Cinema. While the former screens mostly Hindi movies, the latter screens Bengali movies and the occasional Hindi movie.

Chittaranjan has many Community Halls where annual Durga Puja festival is organized and celebrated.

Focus on: CHITTARANJAN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS:http://www.geocities.ws/lococlw/milestones.html
              http://www.trainweb.org/railworld/CLW/

              Chittaranjan-Where Sprite is High

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