Payradanga

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History

The entire history combines places like Payradanga, Anulia, Baidyapur & Haradham. Well planned roads connect all these places & the culture here. In 1606 A.C. Bhabananda Roy Majumder was the King of Nadia according to the Mughal Empire Jahangir's 14 Parganas. Later on Raja Rudra(1683–94) established the city Krishnagar. However the development in Nadia was led by Raja Krishnachandra(1728-82). He built religious places & small localities around different places in Nadia. That time he also built a locality at Haradham(Currently in Payradanga) & Anandadham. Particularly he took steps to develop Haradham in various ways. This was the beginning.There were many areas scattered in and around Payradanga while during the '50s some social workers like Khitish Chandra Guha, Rohonikanta Das, Bhabes Chandra Chakroborty & many more others took the initiative develop a well designed locality in Pritinagar. They built a co-operative to support the dream. After that they established the Pritinagar High School and started Bengali's greatest festival Durga Puja & more activities for the people.May be that time the place they try to build was vacant, but what they dreamed was true, because currently Payradanga is one of the famous names for many things in the District of Nadia. The first structured ruling system employed here was the Chowkidary Panchayat system that started in 1870 during the British Period. In 1885 this two-level ruling structure was formed by the British Govt.Post independence, the ruling scheme designed was with a little change in the previous. In 1957 the first Panchayet structure was employed in West Bengal, but in 1973 this law was passed & a 3 stage panchayet was employed, i.e. Zilla Parishad, Block Panchayet Samiti.The 1st Gram Panchayat election started from June 1978.(-informed by Tanay)
Demographics

Payradanga is a small village in the Nadia District of West Bengal. It is a peaceful and calm locality and its proximity to the Ganges makes it an ideal weekend spot (Mangaldeep Island). It is situated between the two better known railway stations of Ranaghat and Chakdah.
Transport

It is well connected by the local train transport system to the Sealdah-Ranaghat Line and the National Highway 34. Shri Phani Bhushan Roy became famous when he founded a school for the under preveleged children of payradanga in 1977 named r c vidyalaya ,kushuria,belghoria. Latter Mr.P.B.Roy founder of R.K. Children Paradise tried to eradicate illeteracy involving himself, spending lot of money by selling his own property, helping others to stand on feet.
Popular place

Pritinagar,
New Gopalpur,
Purano Gopalpur,
Parbatipur,
Saltlake Para,
Baninagar,
Belghoria etc.

Education

Higher-Secondary Schools

Pritinagar Bhudeb Smriti Vidyapith,
Pritinagar Bhudeb Smriti Vidyapith(For Girls)
Mukundanagar Kalicharan High School,
Anulia Higher Secondary School,


Junior High Schools

West Sambhupur Vidyaniketan,
Nandighat Adarsha Vidyaniketan,
Baidyapur Vivekanana Bidyamandir,
Naserkuli Netaji Junior High,
Patuli Vidyamandir


KG School

R.K. Children Paradise

Shri Phani Bhushan Roy became famous when he founded a school for the under preveleged children of payradanga in 1977 named r c vidyalaya ,kushuria,belghoria. Latter Mr.P.B.Roy founder of R.K. Children Paradise tried to eradicate illeteracy involving himself, spending lot of money by selling his own property, helping others to stand on feet.
Literature & Art

From the birth of this place, peoples come into the light of literature world. Many Bramhin Pandits wrote books(puthi) in various topics. Some of them are kept into some toles, even we can found some Panjikas which are 100 years old.

Ramesh Chandra Chakroborty(Pandit) who is one of the few people who spent his prime time with Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan has wrote few good books. After that many writers wrote various books from here, the list is huge.

If we look at the history, Payradanga has a unique place in the sector of drama. In ancient locality more or less there is a craze of drama acting, but those are all armature, basically they used to do it in festivals. But after the independence in 1947 people started to come home here & start to build a healthy locality in different places here like Pritinagar, Parbatipur, Gopalpur, Baninagar etc.

The First well organized drama group 'Milan Samity Natyagosthy' in 1953 founded by Subodh Ghosh, the first drama they have played is 'Parthasarathy' written by Utpalendu Sen. Khitish Chandra Ghosh, Sukuar Chowdhury, Sitangshu Chowdhury, Badal Sarkar, Dr. K.C. Saha, Dr. Brajabasi Aditya, Bhabotosh Majumder were well known figure in this field.

Many here organization like 'Bhartiya Ganenatya Sangha' , 'Tarun Sangha', 'Rupayan' , 'Payradanga Anchalik Natya Sangha', 'Natya Sangastha'are other well known drama groups here.

Also 'Nabin Natya Sangha' of Nandighat, 'Dramatic Club(founder Apurba Chattajee) in 1965, 'Anamica Theater Center' (founder Prabir Nag) in 1978, 'Manaharaty (founder Subhas Nandi), is some famous name in the history of drama.

After the independence few Club organization started to publish many Magazine & papers. First one is 'Parag' in 1954(The editor was Rabi Dutta), in 1978'Bamichandan, in 1982 Kowrab, in 1986 'Agnifine' are some historical magagine published from here.

Currently few famous magazines are 'Disha', Padakyep', 'Pabitra, 'Bikyan', 'Charabhami', etc.


Temples & Asrams

Avayananda Asram,
Om-Shiveshek Soudamini Seba Asram,
Krisnadas Gouriya Asram
Jagataguru Shakarachanya Asram
Tapoban,
Dharmasala,
Payradanha Hindu Milan Mandir,
Premananda Sevasram,
Bigrahobari
Bharat Sevasram Sangha
Lokenath Asram
Sri Ramkrishna Vivekanada Asram
Sri Sri Kalimatara Mandir(Bazar Samiti),
Sri Sri Kalimatara Mandir(Vendor Samiti,
Harekrishana Mandir,
Baninagar Asram.


Churches

Protestant Church (Dayabari),
Begopara Katholic Church(Dayabari)


Mosque

Khaspur(South) Mosjid,
Gopalpur Mosjid,
Jobpur Mosjid
South Dhakuria 1 No & 2 No Mosjid,
Nandighat Mosjid,
Patuli Masjid,
Belgharia Mosjid,
Srinathpur Mosjid