Nimtita

Two cousins, Gour Sundar and Dwarikanath Choudhury purchased large tracts of land and established the Nimtita Estate around 1866–67. In June 2022, the Nimtita Rajbari was declared as a heritage under the West Bengal Heritage Commission.{{Cite web |title=Heritage Commission, West Bengal |url=https://wbhc.in/home/heritage_gallery/NTAzNTEwYWY2YmRjODcyOTljYjVkYjVlMjUzODk1YzRjNTEyNjBjNGEyMDEwYmVmYThlZGQxMWE1YWVkNzM0ODYzNWViMTdkMmQ2YTk3MmM0NGFkZDEzZTg4Y2M3MDMyYTFmYzM0MDkyMDYwZjAwY2M0NTBhMjU0YWM5ZjY2ZTlNeFRJeVc1dHpuNjdEUzNBd25CUVNsRW5sNFBjOWlCTWkxV3RzSGtVUEFnPQ== |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=wbhc.in}}{{Cite web |title=হেরিটেজ মর্যাদা নিমতিতা রাজবাড়ির |url=https://eisamay.com/west-bengal-news/bahrampur-news/murshidabad-news-heritage-status-of-nimtita-rajbari-decided-by-west-bengal-heritage-commission/articleshow/91998917.cms |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=Eisamay |language=bn}} The house itself was miraculously spared." The Rajbari survived but 1955 saw the abolition of the zamindari system. The estate collapsed and things started decaying. There were pleasant breaks – Satyajit Ray came to shoot films here (see below for more details) and Renuka Ray made the Rajbari her election campaign headquarters – but for all practical purposes, it had reached the end of its glorious chapter.{{Cite web |title=জলসাঘর'-এর সুরে আজও স্মৃতিমেদুর নিমতিতা রাজবাড়ি |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/rabibashoriyo/a-special-write-up-about-nimtita-rajbari/cid/1410077 |access-date=28 May 2024}}

Note:Nimtita Rajbari is located on the banks of the Ganges, near Jagtai.

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Abbreviation- TPS: Thermal Power Station
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===Location===

Nimtita is located at {{coord|24.6505|N|87.9701|E|display=inline}}.

Jangipur subdivision is crowded with 52 census towns and as such it had to be presented in two location maps. One of the maps can be seen alongside. The subdivision is located in the Rarh region that is spread over from adjoining Santhal Pargana division of Jharkhand. The land is slightly higher in altitude than the surrounding plains and is gently undulating.{{cite web| url = http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/DCHB_A/19/1907_PART_A_DCHB_MURSHIDABAD.pdf |title = District Census Handbook: Murshidabad, Series 20 Part XII A | work= Physiography, Page 13 |publisher= Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal, 2011 | access-date = 24 July 2017}}{{cite web| url = http://murshidabad.gov.in/About.aspx#2 | title= Murshidabad | work= Geography | publisher= Murshidabad district authorities| access-date = 24 July 2017}} The river Ganges, along with its distributaries, is prominent in both the maps. At the head of the subdivision is the 2,245 m long Farakka Barrage, one of the largest projects of its kind in the country.{{cite web | url = http://fbp.gov.in/ | title = Farakka Barrage Project | publisher = FBP | access-date = 12 September 2017}} Murshidabad district shares with Bangladesh a porous international border which is notoriously crime prone (partly shown in this map).{{cite web| url = https://edgeofhumanity.com/2020/12/27/child-labor-illnesses-lost-childhoods-indias-tobacco-industry/ |title = Child labour, illness & lost childhoods, India's tobacco industry |date = 27 December 2020 |publisher= Edge of Humanity Magazine, 27 December 2020| access-date = 13 July 2021}} The subdivision has two large power plants - the 2,100 MW Farakka Super Thermal Power Station and the 1,600 MW Sagardighi Thermal Power Station.{{cite web| url = http://ntpc.co.in/power-generation/coal-based-power-stations/farakka | title= Power Generation | work= Farakka |publisher= NTPC| access-date = 7 August 2016}}{{cite web | url = http://www.wbpdcl.co.in/wbpdcl/sagardighipowerstation.html | title = The West Bengal Power Development Corporation Limited | work = Sagardighi Thermal Power Project | publisher = WBPDCL | access-date = 15 August 2017}} According to a 2016 report, there are around 1,000,000 (1 million/ ten lakh) workers engaged in the beedi industry in Jangipur subdivision. 90% are home-based and 70% of the home-based workers are women.{{cite web | url = http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10603/28080/6/06_chapter%201.pdf| title = Child workers in household industry: a study of beedi industry in Murshidabad district of West Bengal | first= Sunirmal| last= Kar| work = Viswa Bharati University thesis, page 5 | publisher = Shodhganga | access-date = 28 August 2017}}{{cite web | url = http://www.thestatesman.com/features/the-poor-man-s-cigarette-1485045757.html | title = The 'Poor man's cigarette' | work = Gurvinder Singh | date = 22 January 2017 | publisher = The Statesman, 22 January 2017 | access-date = 28 August 2017}}{{cite news | url = http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/Beedi-workers-of-Jangipur-hold-key/article16588097.ece#! | title = Beedi workers of Jangipur hold key | work = Indrani Dutta | date = 30 April 2009 | publisher = The Hindu, 1 May 2009 | access-date = 28 August 2017}} As of 2013, an estimated 2.4 million people reside along the banks of the Ganges alone in Murshidabad district. Severe erosion occurs along the banks.{{cite web | url = http://gangawaterway.in/assets/7-murshidabad.pdf | title = Types and sources of floods in Murshidabad, West Bengal | work = Swati Mollah | publisher = Indian Journal of Applied Research, February 2013 | access-date = 5 September 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170820073737/http://gangawaterway.in/assets/7-murshidabad.pdf | archive-date = 20 August 2017 | url-status = dead }}

Note: The two maps present some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the maps are linked in the larger full screen maps.

According to the 2011 Census of India, Nimtita had a total population of 2,068, of which 1,011 (49%) were males and 1,057 (50%) were females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 262. The total number of literate persons in Nimtita was 1,031 (57.09% of the population over 6 years).{{cite web| url = https://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/DCHB_A/19/1907_PART_A_DCHB_MURSHIDABAD.pdf |title = District Census Handbook, Murshidabad, Series 20, Part XII B| work= Rural PCA-C.D. blocks wise Village Primary Census Abstract, location no. 313863, page 166-67|publisher= Directorate of Census Operations West Bengal | access-date = 7 July 2021}}

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Nimtita railway station has the station code NILE. In normal times many trains stopped at this station.{{cite web | url = https://www.totaltraininfo.com/station/nile/ | title = NILE/ Nimtita | publisher = Total Train Info | accessdate = 3 June 2018}}

Nimtita G.D. Institution is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1913. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. The school has a playground and a library with 1,500 books.{{cite web | url = https://schools.org.in/murshidabad/19072210902/nimtita-g-d-institution.html | title = Nimtita G.D. Institution | publisher = Schools.org | accessdate = 7 July 2021}}

Nimtita Rajbari, on the bank of the Ganges, is now a dilapidated structure, a testimony of a glorious past. It had inspired Tarashankar Bandopadhyay to write a short-story about a man who refused to change with the times. He saw the mighty river gobble up his estates, but would not give up. Satyajit Ray made one of his great films based on that story – Jalsaghar, with the legendary Chhabi Biswas in the lead role. It was shot at Nimtita Rajbari in 1957, and then the maestro followed it up with the shooting of Devi in 1960 and Samapti in 1961. The Rajbari was obviously in a great shape in those days. The ruins are now in danger of being devoured by the river.{{cite web | url = https://www.getbengal.com/details/the-grand-dilapidated-nimtita-palace-where-satyajit-ray-shot-jalshaghar | title = The grand dilapidated Nimtita Palace where Satyjit Ray shot Jalshaghar | publisher = Get Bengal | accessdate = 7 July 2021}}

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Samserganj CD block is one of the areas of Murshidabad district where ground water is affected by a high level of arsenic contamination. The WHO guideline for arsenic in drinking water is 10 mg/ litre, and the Indian Standard value is 50 mg/ litre. The maximum concentration in Samserganj CD block is 287 mg/litre.{{cite web | url = http://www.soesju.org/arsenic/wb1.htm | title = Groundwater Arsenic contamination in West Bengal-India (20 years study )| publisher = SOES | work = Murshidabad| access-date = 4 August 2017}}

• River bank erosion along the Ganges in Malda and Murshidabad districts

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