Kolkata — the skyline across the Maidan

Kolkata is the main business, commercial and financial hub of eastern India and the main port of communication for the North-East Indian states.Kolkata is home to India's second-largest stock exchange - The Calcutta Stock Exchange, a major port, an internation al airport and many high quality colleges aimed at supplying a highly-skilled work force.^[1] ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x393, 136 KB) Summary Kolkata Skyline Photo taken by Seaview (myself) Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x393, 136 KB) Summary Kolkata Skyline Photo taken by Seaview (myself) Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Indies, on the display globe of the Field Museum, Chicago The Indies or East Indies (or East India) is a term used to describe lands of South and South-East Asia, occupying all of the former British India, the present Indian Union, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Maldives, and... The Himalayas in Sikkim North-East India is the easternmost region of India consisting of the following states: Nagaland Arunachal Pradesh Mizoram Manipur Meghalaya Tripura Sikkim Assam Sikkim became an Indian protectorate in 1947 and a full state in 1975. ...

Kolkata is home to many industrial units, of large Indian corporations, whose product range is varied and includes - engineering products, electronics, electrical equipment, cables, steel, leather, textiles, jewellery, frigates, automobiles, railway coaches, wagons, tea, paper, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, tobacco, food products, jute products etc. The field of electronics is the study and use of systems that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles in devices such as thermionic valves and semiconductors. ... The article on electrical energy is located elsewhere. ... The old steel cable of a colliery winding tower Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material. ... Modern leather-working tools Leather is a material created through the tanning of hides, pelts and skins of animals, primarily cows. ... It has been suggested that Textile manufacturing be merged into this article or section. ... Comedian Joan Rivers wearing bracelets, necklaces, and rings on the cover of a book about her jewellery collection. ... Frigate is a name which has been used for several distinct types of warships at different times. ... A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ... A wagon (in old British English waggon) is a wheeled vehicle, ordinarily with four wheels, usually pulled by an animal such as a horse, mule or ox, which was used for transport of heavy goods in the past. ... Tea leaves in a gaiwan. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmacon is drug, and logos is science) is the study of how chemical substances interfere with living systems. ... A chemical substance is any material substance used in or obtained by a process in chemistry: A chemical compound is a substance consisting of two or more chemical elements that are chemically combined in fixed proportions. ... Species N. glauca N. longiflora N. rustica N. sylvestris N. tabacum Ref: ITIS 30562 as of August 26, 2005 Tobacco (, L.) refers to a genus of broad-leafed plants of the nightshade family indigenous to North and South America, or to the dried and cured leaves of such plants. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Most of the slum dwellers participate in the informal economy ^[2] and work in laundering, housecleaning, sweeping, plastic salvaging, plumbing, furniture making, electrical wiring, TV repair, masonry, messaging, hawking, rickshaw pulling, hair design, folk medicine, music and art, tailoring, leather work, shoe making, and food selling.Until recently, flexible production had always been the norm in Kolkata, and the informal sector has comprised more than forty percent of the labor force.^[3]

Kolkata Skyline from Victoria Memorial

Kolkata witnessed an economic decline from the sixties till the late nineties. The partition, along with the massive migrant refugee, the Bangladesh war, the Naxal liberal movement, the collapse of the jute industry, and the breakdown of infrastructure and management, served to nearly destroy the economy of Kolkata. The city's fortunes have looked up since the nineties, coinciding with the liberalization of the Indian economy. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 599 KB) Summary Kolkata skyline on a beautiful monsoon morning. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 599 KB) Summary Kolkata skyline on a beautiful monsoon morning. ... Britains holdings on the Indian subcontinent were granted independence in 1947 and 1948, becoming four new independent states: India, Burma (now Myanmar), Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and Pakistan (including East Pakistan, modern-day Bangladesh). ... The Bangladesh Liberation War (two other names are also used occasionally) refers to an armed conflict between West Pakistan (now Pakistan) and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) that lasted for roughly nine months in 1971. ... Naxalite is an informal name given to revolutionary communist groups that were born out of the Sino-Soviet split in the Indian communist movement. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Several industrial estates like Taratolla, Kalyani, Uluberia, Dankuni, Kasba, Howrah are spread throughout the urban agglomeration. A huge leather complex has come up at Bantolla. An export processing zone has been set up in Falta. Specialized setups like the country's first Toy Park, and a Gem and Jewellery Park have also been established.

The state of West Bengal has promoted foreign direct investment, which has mostly come in the software and electronics field.^[4] Kolkata is also becoming a major hub for the IT (Information Technology) industry. With construction underway of New Town at Rajarhat and extension of Salt Lake's Sector-V, Kolkata is rapidly turning into a preferred IT/BPO destination.^[5] More and more businesses are coming to Kolkata to set up their offices, including multinationals such as IBM, HSBC and ABN AMRO Bank. Leading the way in growth have been the Kolkata based companies such as Skytech, WDC, Vision Comptech and Polaris Networks amongst numerous others. This apart, other big Indian software firms are choosing to make Kolkata their hub of operations. Of these Wipro, TCS, MBT, Cognizant are leading the way. Owing to the recent boom in the economy of Kolkata and also the state as a whole, West Bengal is now the third fastest growing economy in the country.^[6] Information technology (IT) or Information and communication(s) technology (ICT) is a broad subject concerned with technology and other aspects of managing and processing information, especially in large organizations. ... Rajarhat, also called New Town, is the latest township being developed on the north-eastern fringes of Kolkata city. ... bla bla bla ... Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is the leveraging of technology or specialist process vendors to provide and manage an organisations critical and/or non-critical enterprise processes and applications. ... International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) NYSE: IBM (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, NY, USA. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, infrastructure services and consulting services. ... HSBC Holdings PLC (匯豐控股有限公司) (NYSE: HBC, LSE: HSBA, HKEx: 005, Euronext: HSBC) is one of the largest banking groups in the world. ... ABN AMRO (Euronext: AAB, (NYSE: ABN)) is the largest bank in the Netherlands and has operations all over the world, its history going back to 1824. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Wipro Technologies. ... TCS may stand for: Tactical cryptologic system Taiwanese Cultural Society Taking Children Seriously (tcs. ... Cognizant began its software services business in 1994 as the in-house technology development center for The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (D&B) and its operating units. ... West Bengal (পশ্চিম বঙ্গ, Poshchim Bôngo) is a state in the eastern region of India. ...

Notes

1. ↑ Dasgupta, 2002
2. ↑ Thomas, 1997, pp. 113-114
3. ↑ Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order, Mark D. Bjelland et al.
4. ↑ Dasgupta, 2002
5. ↑ Frontline article
6. ↑ Remarks of Consul General Henry V. Jardine to The Indo-American Chamber of Commerce “INDO-U.S. RELATIONS – RISING TO NEW HEIGHTS” October 19, 2005