About Ashoknagar ( Ashoknagar / Kalyangarh )

Ashokenagar Kalyangarh (Bengali: ) is a city and a municipality under Ashoknagar police station of Barasat Sadar subdivision[2] 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, late CPI(M) leader Bikash Ray Chaudhuri,late CPI(M) leader Nani Kar and Late Chitta Ranjan Basu (CPI-Leader of the common man). The area has two parks - Sanghati Park and Millennium Science Park. There are two English medium schools in Ashokenagar. The area is well connected to Kolkata through rail and road networks. 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.