Industry Chandannagore subdivision has five jute mills – Northbrook Jute Mill, Dalhousie Jute Mill, Angus Jute Works (all at
Champdani under
Bhadreswar police station), Victoria Jute Mill (at Telinipara) and Gondalpara Jute Works (at
Gondalpara) – all along the
Hooghly. Jute mills drew in a large labour force from the neighbouring states of Bihar and Orissa, as well as eastern Uttar Pradesh, quite often forming an overwhelming majority of the population in the area, living in shanty towns and slums dotting the mill area. The proportion of migrants in the population was 80% in Bhadreswar. The entire jute industry is in a bad shape. See also – Victoria Jute Mill, a part of Indian heritage Amongst the other well-known industrial units in Chandannagore subdivision are: Lagan Engineering and Braithwaite. Lagan Engineering is a jute machinery manufacturing company set up in 1955 in Angus in
Champdani. The machinery it has manufactured has been functioning well in numerous jute mills. It has been modernising to keep abreast with the latest technological developments. It was initially set up by the Northern Ireland-based-
James Mackie & Sons, run for a short period by the Government of India, which subsequently divested its shares to Murlidhar Ratanlal Exports Ltd. Braithwaite's Angus Works was set up at
Champdani in 1960 for manufacturing cranes, foundry products and machinery components etc. In 2010, the administrative control of
Braithwaite & Co. was taken over by the
Ministry of Railways.
Singur gained international media attention since
Tata Motors started constructing a factory to manufacture their $2,500 car, the
Tata Nano at Singur. The small car was scheduled to roll out of the factory by 2008. In October 2008 Tatas announced withdrawal from the project. In 2016, the Supreme Court quashed the West Bengal government's acquisition of 997 acres of agricultural land for Tata Motors and ordered its return to 9,117 landowners.
Handloom weaving The
handloom sarees of
Dhaniakhali,
Begampur,
Jangipara,
Rajbalhat areas and
dhutis of
Haripal, Rajbalhat,
Khanakul areas of Hooghly district are widely familiar.
Agriculture Hooghly is an agriculturally prosperous district of West Bengal. Although the economy has been shifting away from agriculture, it is still the pre-dominant economic activity and the main source of livelihood for the rural people of the district. One third of the district income comes from agriculture. Given below is an overview of the agricultural production (all data in tonnes) for Chandannagore subdivision, other subdivisions and the Hooghly district, with data for the year 2013-14.
Poverty The information given above leads us on to a comment in the District Human Development Report for Hooghly district: In the sub-division wise comparison of the levels of poverty in Hooghly district, Srirampur and Chandannagore share the lowest incidence of poverty. ==Education==