Batanagar
Batanagar (Bengali: বাটানগর, in German: Bata City) is a factory town southwest of West Bengal metropolis of Calcutta in India .
geography
Batanagar is located near the Ganges River in the Dakshin 24 Pargana district of West Bengal state. It belongs administratively to the territory of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority . The nearest railway station is Nungi (Nangi) 23 km south of Sealdah on the Sealdah - Budge Budge section of the Indian Eastern Railway . The coordinates are 22 ° 17′N and 88 ° 07′E.
history
Batanagar was founded in 1934 by the then Czechoslovak shoe company Baťa under the direction of Jan Antonin Baťa and with the participation of 75 experts from Czechoslovakia. Following the example of the town of Zlín in Moravia , where the group was founded, factory buildings and houses for employees were built in the functionalism style.
economy
Today (2011) the shoe factory is the nucleus of hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses that manufacture shoes from leather, PVC, jute and other materials. In addition, large and well-known Indian shoe companies have settled here, which outsource much of the work to the city's small businesses.
exhibition
- 2011: City Inc .; Bata Cities - Corporate Towns , Bauhaus Dessau
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The shoemakers and their 80 factory towns in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung of August 14, 2011, page 32
Coordinates: 22 ° 32 ' N , 88 ° 16' E