Question

Name the state where Haldia sea-port is located.

Answer 1

Hint: It is a state situated along the Bay of Bengal in the eastern region of India. As a subsidiary port, the port of Haldia was established to alleviate the mounting pressure on the port of capital of the state. The region was later captured at the Battle of Plassey in 1757 by the British East India Company

Complete Answer:
Haldia sea-port -
- Haldia is an industrial harbor town in Purba Medinipur district, the Indian state of western Bengal. It is a major river port and industrial belt situated about 124 kilometers southwest of Kolkata, near the mouth of one of the distributors of the Ganges, the Hooghly River. Haldia city is bordered by the Haldi River, on the banks of the Ganges River.
- Haldia is a hub for many petrochemical firms and is being developed as a major commercial port for Kolkata. Haldia is a headquarters for the Indian Coast Guard as well.
- The DHQ 8 (Headquarters for West Bengal) Indian Coast Guard is based in Haldia.
Four of the eighteen hovercraft belonging to the Indian Coast Guard are housed at a hover terminal.
- There is also a pontoon jetty accessible for the Indian coast guard to berth a fleet of ships.
Haldia is currently home to two fast patrol vessels, one inshore patrol vessel, and one small boat.

West Bengal -
- West Bengal is a state situated in the eastern region of India along the Bay of Bengal.It is India's fourth-most populous and fourteenth-largest state by area.
- The Indian subcontinent, part of the Bengal region, borders Bangladesh to the east, and Nepal and Bhutan to the north. The Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim and Assam also border it.
- The capital of the state is Kolkata, the third largest metropolis and India's seventh largest city by population. The Himalayan hill area of Darjeeling, the Ganges delta, the Rarh region and the coastal Sundarbans form West Bengal.
- The largest ethnic group of the state are the Bengalis, with the demographic majority established by the Bengali Hindus.

Note: When India gained independence in 1947, Bengal was partitioned along religious lines. The western portion went to the Indian Dominion and was called West Bengal. As a province called East Bengal (later renamed East Pakistan in 1956), the eastern portion went to the Dominion of Pakistan, becoming the independent nation of Bangladesh in 1971.