Dantan


Dantan is a village, with a police station, in Dantan I CD Block in Kharagpur subdivision of Paschim Medinipur district in the state of West Bengal, India.

CD Block HQ

The headquarters of Dantan I CD Block are located at Dantan.

Police station

Dantan police station has jurisdiction over Dantan I CD Block.

Transport

The Kolkata-Chennai South Eastern Railway passes through Dantan I CD Block and there is a station at Dantan named Dantan railway station.
The Kolkata-Chennai Golden Quadrilateral National Highway 16 or Kolkata-Bengaluru Asian Highway 45 passes through Dantan.Dantan is well connected with Nayagram via Mogalmari Bhasraghat Road.

Education

at Dantan was established in 1963 and is affiliated to Vidyasagar University. It offers undergraduate courses in arts, commerce and science and also has facilities for some post-graduate courses. The college is named after Mathuranath Bhatter, a local businessman and social worker who had contributed handsomely to set up the college.