Badkulla

Geography

Badkulla is located at . It has an average elevation of 9 metres (30 feet). The Anjana river has gone through Badkulla. Though at present, it can hardly be recognized as a river due to immense pollution and population. But it is believed that once the great poet Rabindranath Tagore had come and wrote a poem about the Anjana river and a temple beside it. That temple can still be found beside the Anjana river. Nadia district is mostly alluvial plains lying to the east of Hooghly River, locally known as Bhagirathi. The alluvial plains are cut across by such distributaries as Jalangi, Churni and Ichhamati. With these rivers getting silted up, floods are a recurring feature. The Ranaghat subdivision has the Bhagirathi on the west, with Purba Bardhaman and Hooghly districts lying across the river. Topographically, Ranaghat subdivision is spread across the Krishnanagar-Santipur Plain, which occupies the central part of the district, and the Ranaghat-Chakdaha Plain, the low-lying area found in the south-eastern part of the district. The Churni separates the two plains. A portion of the east forms the boundary with Bangladesh. The lower portion of the east is covered by a portion of the North 24 Parganas district. The subdivision has achieved reasonably high urbanisation. 41.68% of the population lives in urban areas and 58.32% lives in rural areas. Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map. All the four subdivisions are presented with maps on the same scale – the size of the maps vary as per the area of the subdivision.

Most-observed species

• Spotted Dove

  Spilopelia chinensis (Scopoli, 1786) · Aves
  1,036
• Red-vented Bulbul

  Pycnonotus cafer (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  918
• Common Myna

  Acridotheres tristis (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  912
• Jungle Babbler

  Turdoides striata (Dumont, 1823) · Aves
  909
• Oriental Magpie-Robin

  Copsychus saularis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  822
• Asian Pied Starling

  Gracupica contra (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  803
• Rufous Treepie

  Dendrocitta vagabunda (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  786
• Jungle Myna

  Acridotheres fuscus (Wagler, 1827) · Aves
  784

Most recent

• M 4 — 2020-08-26
  13 km W of Kar?mpur, India
• M 4.5 — 2013-08-06
  9 km NE of Sh?ntipur, India
• M 4.2 — 2009-01-05
  10 km NE of Nagarukhra, India