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The scheme was announced under the National Civil Aviation Policy of 2016 so that unserved and underserved airstrips could be linked to the main network at capped fares, with the gap met through a viability gap funding mechanism.

The airport is named after Kempegowda, the sixteenth century chieftain regarded as the founder of the city.

Cochin International Airport commissioned a solar plant large enough to meet its own consumption, and for that it received the Champion of the Earth award of the United Nations Environment Programme in 2018.

It sits far up the Hooghly river rather than on the open sea, which makes it the only riverine major port in the country, and it is the oldest of the major ports still working; the Haldia dock complex downstream was added to handle larger vessels that cannot reach Kolkata.

The Jawaharlal Nehru Port lies at Nhava Sheva across the harbour from Mumbai, in the Navi Mumbai area, and it handles the largest volume of container traffic of any port in India.

The first stretch of the Kolkata Metro, between Esplanade and Bhowanipore, was opened on 24 October 1984, almost two decades before any other Indian city had a metro.

Situated on the west bank of the Hooghly near Howrah, Belur Math is the headquarters of both the Ramakrishna Mission and the Ramakrishna Math, and its main temple is built in a style that deliberately blends Hindu, Islamic and Christian architectural elements.

Grown on the slopes of the Darjeeling hills in northern West Bengal, it was the first product in India to be registered under the geographical indications system, which protects a name that identifies goods as coming from a particular place and having qualities owing to that origin.

Santiniketan in Birbhum district grew around the school and later the university Visva Bharati that Tagore founded there, teaching in the open air and joining Indian and world traditions, and it was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2023.

The battle was fought on 23 June 1757 at Palashi in the Nadia region, where Robert Clive defeated Siraj ud Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, largely through the defection of Mir Jafar, and the victory made the Company the real power in Bengal.

The Sundarbans, shared between India and Bangladesh, is the one place where tigers have adapted to a tidal mangrove habitat and are known to swim between islands.

The Ganga splits in West Bengal, with the main stream going into Bangladesh as the Padma and the Bhagirathi and Hooghly running south past Kolkata.

The collection of devotional poems, which Tagore himself rendered into English, won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, making him the first Indian and the first non European to receive the award.

The Corporation was created soon after independence to control the floods of the Damodar, a river so destructive that it was called the sorrow of Bengal, and it was modelled on the Tennessee Valley Authority of the United States, combining flood control, irrigation, power generation and navigation in one body.

It was established in 1862 under the Indian High Courts Act of 1861, a few days before the High Courts at Bombay and Madras, which makes it the oldest in the country; its jurisdiction also extends beyond the state to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

West Bengal is the only Indian state that touches three foreign countries: Nepal lies to its north west, Bhutan to its north and Bangladesh to its east along a long eastern frontier.

The Carnatic vocalist was conferred the Bharat Ratna in 1998, becoming the first musician to receive the country's highest civilian honour; she had earlier been the first Indian musician to win the Ramon Magsaysay Award, in 1974.

The Academy in Chennai confers the Sangeetha Kalanidhi on the musician who presides over its annual December music season, and the title is treated as the highest distinction a Carnatic musician can receive.

The award is named after Tansen, the celebrated musician of Akbar's court who is associated with Gwalior, and it is presented at the Tansen Samaroh, the annual music festival held at Gwalior in that state.

The Sangeet Natak Akademi, the national academy for music, dance and drama set up by a government resolution in 1952 and inaugurated in January 1953, gives its annual awards widely but reserves the Fellowship as its highest distinction, limited to a small fixed number of living artists at any one…