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The 42 is a residential skyscraper in Kolkata, in the state of West Bengal, India. [7] [8] It is located on Chowringhee Road, the central business district of the city, between the commercial building of Tata Centre and the residential building of Jeevan Sudha. It was first proposed in 2008 but construction was delayed for nearly two years. [9]
Population below 6 years was 1,018. The total number of literates in Ward No. 42 was 15,550 (75.02% of the population over 6 years). [9] Kolkata is the second most literate district in West Bengal. [10] The literacy rate of Kolkata district has increased from 53.0% in 1951 to 86.3% in the 2011 census. [11]
Kolkata is currently home to around 1,000 completed high-rise buildings, [1] [2] and many more high-rise buildings are under construction. The 42, which was completed in 2019, is currently the tallest building in Kolkata and East India with a height of 260 metres (853 ft) consisting of 65 floors. [3]
That building was, in turn, displaced by The 42 in Kolkata, which was also designed by Contractor and architecturally topped out at 260m. [3] He also designed 23 Marina in Dubai, [15] which was briefly the world's tallest all-residential building, and is currently third behind the nearby Princess Tower and 432 Park Avenue in New York City.
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is the local government of the Indian city of Kolkata, the state capital of West Bengal. This civic administrative body administers an area of 206.08 square kilometres (79.57 sq mi). [ 2 ]
Kolkata was the capital of the British India until 1911, when the capital was relocated to Delhi. Kolkata grew rapidly in the 19th century to become the second most important city of the British Empire after London and was declared as the financial (commercial) capital of the British India. This was accompanied by the fall of a culture that ...
There are several theories about the origin of Kolkata, erstwhile Calcutta in English, the name of the capital of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.. Ain-i- Akbari, the rent-roll of Akbar, the sixteenth-century Mughal emperor, and Manasa-mangal, the work of a Bengali poet, Bipradas Pipilai, of the late fifteenth century, both make mention of the city's early name's being Kolikata, from ...
Kolkata district is the only district in the state with a negative growth rate (−1.7%) for the 2001–2011 decade. Kolkata district has the second highest literacy rate (86.3%) in the state. [22] Kolkata metropolitan area, extending over an area of 1851.41 km 2, is one of the six metropolitan areas in India.