Lalgola

Lalgola is a village in Lalgola CD Block in Lalbag subdivision of Murshidabad district, West Bengal. It is situated about north of Kolkata, near the head of the Ganges delta. It is a terminal railway station on the Ranaghat-Lalgola branch line. It is also a border checkpoint but presently non functional due to some unknown reasons.OverviewLalgola is a businesses area situated near Bangladesh-India border surrounded by a number of large and small lakes (dighis).It was a settlement which came into existence after the Permanent Settlement in Bengal in 1793 by the Zamindar employed by The British East India Company. It was one of the prominent businesses hubs in then Murshidabad. Mainly agricultural products were collected and exported to different corner of the country. The remnant of the Palaces, called Rajbari, is still present. In one of these palaces Lalgola Open Air Correctional Home is established. It is the only one open air correctional home in West Bengal which runs here since 1986. The Lalgola Palace had been gifted to the government by Maharaja Jogendra Narayan Ray.GeographyLalgola is located at. It is located near the Padma River, which is the principal distributary of the Ganges, and which forms the border between India and Bangladesh in this area; thus Bangladesh bounds the town on the north and east. The average elevation is about 23m