Some Interesting Talks about the Town "Chittaranjan"

 ☑ Town of Rail and what is interesting in this town - "Chittaranjan":

☐ Chittaranjan is an old town in the Salanpur CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision in the district of Paschim Bardhaman in the state of West Bengal, India. And this Town is traditionally known as Chittaranjan Railway Engine Factory.  

 At the beginning of the forty-seventh year, an expert committee visited this area to find a suitable place. At that time, the engineers from Asansol Divisional Office used to come here to survey. In the meantime, the work of rehabilitation started by compensating the local residents. An engineer named Mahadev Ganapati came forward with the first responsibility in making the town. 

In 1924, the number of paved houses in this area was over ten (10) in total, the roads were like remote rural, and also the roads were over the paddy fields. And today where Chittaranjan railway engine factory is situated. At that time, there was a paddy field of Durgadihi. And just like in the movies, Christian missionaries went from village to village for helping the needy, preaching their religion, and giving jobs in the colliery, the fire bricks factory, and the Barnapur factory.

In the month after independence, a group of young IOWs came here to survey the land. After discussions among the chip secretaries of Bengal and Bihar, the construction of a railway locomotive factory started in full swing in March 1948. Amladahi, Fatehpur, Keshia, these places were then full of dense forests. Each village had only a few houses for inhabiting, and the narrow path through the forested area was "from Amladahi to Rupnarayanpur, Panuria, Gourandi to Churulia".Most of the area was covered with shal-mahua forest. The road for bullock carts was not very good then.

In those days, a ten- to twelve-year-old groom had to be taken in a palanquin through a narrow jungle road, accompanied by the lithels, and the bridegroom's companions on foot, just like in a fairy tale. Indigenous people used to make Mahua oil from the flowers of Mahua tree. The oil mill workers of Raniganj used to give a pinch of mustard oil to the indigenous people by exchanging a tin of Mahua oil, and sometimes those people were given a little bit of money. 

Trains started plying through this area in 1930.The train used to leave from Deoghar to Mihijam, Rupnarayanpur, Gourandi, Churulia, and Andal. Poet Nazrul Islam used to go to his friend's house in Burdwan by this train. A few apparatus or parts of this train line are still carefully kept on one side of the Pramila Mancha in Churulia. At that time the king of this region was Bhuiyara of Padmadi of Nirsa Colliery. Naib Rameshwar Tiwari used to come on horseback to collect revenue at Durgadihi, Amladahi Jitpur, Keshia, Baramuri. Mahabir Mukherjee, a 22-year-old man, came to Rupnarayanpur from Howrah with a ticket of Rs.2 to look after the land. He used to live near Rupnarayanpur station. Occasionally he would come to hunt in the forest of Amladahi with a group by carrying guns.