Singhabad


Singhabad is a village in Habibpur CD block in Malda Sadar subdivision of Malda district in the state of West Bengal, India. It is a railway transit point on the Bangladesh-India border.

Geography

Location

Singhabad is located at.

Singhabad-Rohanpur transit facility

It is an active transit facility point. The corresponding station on the Bangladesh side is Rohanpur railway station in Nawabganj District.
As per the Memorandum of Understanding entered into by Bangladesh and India on 15 August 1978 it was agreed to facilitate overland transit traffic between Bangladesh and Nepal. An addendum was made on 6 September 2011, to add new rail routes for facilitating overland transit traffic between Bangladesh and Nepal.
Bangladesh started export of fertilizer to Nepal utilizing the Rahanpur-Singhabad transit point in November 2011. The Singhabad-Rohanpur transit point allows through transport of goods from Raxaul in Nepal to Khulna in Bangladesh, without any transhipment, but is rarely used.

Land customs station

Singhabad has a land customs station for movement of goods by rail on the India-Bangladesh border.

Demographics

As per the 2011 Census of India, Singabad had a total population of 1,951, of which 1.023 were males and 928 were females. Population below 6 years was 306. The total number of literates in Singhabad was 1,158.

Transport

is on the Old Malda-Abdulpur line.