Picnic
& Tourist Spot -
Shantiniketan (Distance
from tarapith 90K.M.)
Shantiniketan is a small town
near Bolpur in the Birbhum District of
West Bengal and about 212 kms north of
Kolkata. It is famous due to Nobel
laureate Rabindranath Tagore, whose vision
became what is now a University town -
Visva-Bharati University. The place now
attracts thousands of visitors each year.
Shantiniketan was earlier called
Bhubandanga (named after Bhuban Dakat, a
local Dacoit), and was owned by the Tagore
family. In 1862, Maharishi Devendranath
Tagore, the poet s father, while on a boat
journey to Raipur, came across a landscape
with red soil and lush green paddy fields.
He decided to plant more saplings and
built a small house. He called his home
Shantiniketan. He founded an ashram here
in 1863 and became the initiator of the
Bramho Samaj.
Hazarduari
(Murshidabad) (Distance from
tarapith 85K.M.)
Hazarduari Palace Museum is located in the
Hazarduari Palace in Murshidabad, former
capital of Bengal. Murshidabad is at a
distance of 219 kms from Kolkata by road.
It was built during the reign of Nawab
Nazim Humayun Jah (1824 1838 AD) by
famous architect McLeod Duncan following
Greek (Doric) style. The name of the
palace owes to more than thousand real and
false doors, vast corridors in it.
In 1985, the palace was
handed over to the Archaeological Survey
of India for better preservation. The
museum is regarded as the biggest site
museum of Archaeological Survey of India
and has got 20 displayed galleries
containing 4742 antiquities out of which
1034 has been displayed for the public.
Massanjore (Distance from
tarapith 75K.M.)
Massanjore dam, across the
Mayurakshi River, is in Dumka district of
Jharkhand State. Built with Candian aid,
it is also called Canada Dam or Pearson
Dam. It was commissioned in 1956.
The dam is 155 feet high from its base
and is 2170 feet long. The reservoir has
an area of 16,650 acres when full and has
a storage capacity of 500,000 acre feet.
Apart from the Massanjore Dam there is a
barrage at Tilpara, near Siuri. The
barrage is 1,013 feet long.
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