About Kharagpur
Kharagpur is an industrial city in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, India. It is the most populated, multi-cultural and cosmopolitan city of Paschim Medinipur district. The first Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), a group of Institutes of National Importance, was founded in Kharagpur as early as in May 1950. It has one of the largest railway workshops in India, and the third longest railway platform in the world (1072.5 m).
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