Payradanga Cycling

Payradanga is the next station from Ranaghat when you go to Sealdah. "শিয়ালদা যাওয়ার গাড়ী ডাউন শান্তিপুর লোকাল দুই নম্বর প্ল্যাটফর্ম থেকে ছাড়বে।" We all are used to listen to these kind of announcements since childhood (down train to Sealdah would start from platform number 2).

I went for a morning cycling from Ranaghat to Payradanga (7.5 kms each side - 15 ons total) on 29th of July. There are two routes - one via the NH-34 highway, other through the anuliya sub-divisional hospital area. When you are in cycle, first route is not at all advisable, I also took the second route only. 

Anuliya area is full of wholesale pharmacy stores. As there's rapid urbanization of the town, and sub-divisional hospital in Anuliya being one of the oldest govt hospitals in Nadia district, there's a lot of medical stores, be it small or big, have come up within 1 km radius of the hospital. And trust me there's a lot of rivalry between all the sellers of medicines, they (the shopkeepers) are forced to sale by keeping the profit margin very less. Not only in medicines, be it in any sector of business, profit margins in ranaghat is very less.

Anyways, I want to upload some photos from the morning. Here are they.

farmer ploughing his paddy field

 This is Gopalpur masjid

A primary school

Railway station at the last.

Thanks for reading.

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