Site Name: Mukutmanipur.
Site Type: Lake and Reserve Forest.
Location: Mukutmanipur is a town in Bankura
district of West Bengal.
Nearest Railway Station: Bankura.
Nearest Airport: Kolkata (180 km) is the nearest airport to Mukutmanipur.
How to Reach: Train
service available from Howrah station till Bankura station. From Bankura one
can take a bus till Mukutmanipur itself. Train journey time from Howrah to
Bankura: 4.5 hrs; bus journey time from Bankura to Mukutmanipur: 2 hrs. Buses
are also available directly from Calcutta to Mukutmanipur, with
journey time
8-9 hrs. Non-A/C pushback buses cost Rs 110-130/- for the Calcutta-Mukutmanipur
direct journey; while the Bankura-Mukutmanipur stretch will cost Rs 30/-. A few
State Transport buses are also available.
- Kangsabati Bhavan - 8 rooms. Bookings at Irrigation and Water Supply Dept, Govt of W Bengal, Writer's Building Kolkata.
- Youth Hostel - Bookings at Youth Welfare Dept, WB Govt, 32/1 BBD Bagh, Kolkata.
- West Bengal Tourist Lodge- Tourist Dept Govt of W Bengal, BBD Bagh, Kolkata. * Eco-tourism centre - West Bengal Forest Development Corporation Limited : Sonajhuri Prakiti Bhraman Kendra. Spot booking permitted subject to availability of rooms
- Private Hotels - There are a number of private hotels arountd the bus stand.
- Peerless Resort.
- Hotel Aparajita & Hotel Amrapali 400 to 990 kolkata cont 033 2264+2O51 329+5336O
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Near by Places:
- BANPUKURIA-DEER PARK 3.8 km
- Baraghutu Hills 7.3 km
- Sitarampur (lagardi) Bankura district 8.2 km
- villag of Digtor... By Tanmoy Roy 9 km
- Forest... By Tanmoy Roy 10 km
- MAHADEV MAHATA'S VILLAGE 12 km
- NITYANANDAPUR VILLAGE 13 km
- CHAMPASOLE JOREBANDH 14 km
- Akkhuta 14 km
Near by Cities:
- KHATRA SUB DIVISION 13 km
- BANKURA 44 km
- musabani 59 km
- JHARGRAM, Midnapore, W.B., India 65 km
- Chandil 69 km
- Jamshedpur 70 km
- KumarDubi Parulia 78 km
- BANGIRIPOSI 94 km
- Rairangpur NAC 100 km
- Chaibasa 106 km
See:
1.
Kangsabati Dam. The height of the dam is 38
metres with a lake of 86 Sqkm.
2.
The island in the middle of the lake.
3.
Ambika Nagar - a Jain prilgrimage.
Food:
Local hotels abound near the bus stand serving local bengali
cuisine.
Drink:
Date tree juice (khejurerer ros)- if you manage to come here
in winter.
Mukutmanipur is a town in Bankura
district of West Bengal, India. It is located at the confluence of the
Kangsabati and Kumari rivers close to the Jharkhand border.
Kangsabati project:
In
1956, a giant water dam reservoir was planned at Mukutmonipur, [about 12 km
from Khatra town in the district of Bankura, WB], under a big vision mooted by
the then CM of Bengal Dr Bidhan Ch. Roy. The Mukutmonipur dam was planned to
provide major irrigation facilities to 8,000 square kilometres of agricultural
land, stretched across Bankura, Purulia, Paschim Medinipur and parts of upper
Hooghly. Approximately two kilometres from the lake is the Bangopalpur Reserve
Forest, a home of many species of flora and fauna.
Tourist centre:
Mukutmonipur
and Jhilimili nearby are major tourist attractions visited by more than a lakh
(100 000) visitors. The second biggest earth dam of India is located in Mukutmonipur
55 km away from Bankura. According to one description, “green forests surround
the vast bluish tract of water, and the hillocks are picturesque. The place is
very famous for its superb natural beauty. The undulating terrain along the
southern edge of the Kangsabati water reservoir spreads as a three-dimensional
necklace in green and terracotta.” The SDO, Khatra, Mr Sanjay Vansal said: “We
have got a Rs 80 lakh composite UNDP project for Mukutmonipur. The project has
been conceived to promote tourism and improve the condition of the tribal
artisans devoted to the craft work with bamboo sticks and saboi grass.” Approximately two kilometers from the lake is
the Bangopalpur Reserve Forest, a home of many species of flora and fauna. Four
kilometres from the dam is the ancient town of Ambikanagar, once an important
place of pilgrimage for Jains. However, a flood destroyed most of what remained
in 1898.
Mukutmanipur,
a quaint serene place, which is home to the world’s reportedly longest (10.8
km) man-made mud-banked fresh water barrage that canalises Kangshabati &
Kumari rivers into the three drought affected districts of Bankura, Purulia
& Midnapore for irrigation in the summer months.
Transport:
The
Union Railway Minister laid the foundation stone of the new 47 km Bankura-Chhatna-Mukutmanipur
line in 2005.
How to Get There:
Train
service available from Howrah station till Bankura station. From Bankura one
can take a bus till Mukutmanipur itself. Train journey time from Howrah to
Bankura: 4.5 hrs; bus journey time from Bankura to Mukutmanipur: 2 hrs. Buses
are also available directly from Calcutta to Mukutmanipur, with journey time
8-9 hrs. Non-A/C pushback buses cost Rs 110-130/- for the Calcutta-Mukutmanipur
direct journey; while the Bankura-Mukutmanipur stretch will cost Rs 30/-. A few
State Transport buses are also available.
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