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LEARNING OBJECTIVE:-Students will learn about the culture, facts and

               famous places of Kolkata.





               KOLKATA


                                                                                  • Kolkata people
                 • Kolkata is                                                      maily speak
                   situated on the                                                 Bengali.
                   banks of River
                   Hooghly.                                                       • Food- rice and
                                                                                   fish curry.
                 • Climate -neither                                               • Desert-Sandesh
                   too hot nor too                                                 and Rasogullas
                   cold .
                                               LOCATION      PEOPLE AND           • Festival-Durga
                                             AND CLIMATE       CULTURE             puja




                                              PLACES TO       IMPORTANT
                                                 VISIT        INDUSTRIES

                 • Victoria                                                      • Jute Industry and
                   Memorial                                                        Textitle Industry
                 • Belur Math
                 • Eden Gardens
                 • Howrah Bridge




                     Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) is the capital of India's West Bengal state.

                      It was India's capital under the British Raj from 1773–1911.

                     It was the first Indian city to get a metro network in the country.



               LEARNING OUTCOME: Children learnt  about the culture, facts and

               famous places of KOLKATA.
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