INTRODUCTION:

Balurghat is a city and a municipality in the state of West Bengal. It is the district headquarters of Dakshin Dinajpur District. National Highway 512 passes across this city. It has an average elevation of twenty five meters which is approximately eighty two feet. River atreyee runs across the city dividing it into disproportionate halves. The city has important administrative, cultural and entertainment halves. Approximately three kilometer from the town lies the India-Bangladesh border. According to census this city has a population of approximately one lakh fifty thousand of which seventy six thousand are males and seventy five thousand are females. The balurghat urban area supports a population of one lakh sixty four thousand out of which eighty two thousand are males and eighty two thousand are females. The infant population is approximately ten thousand. The literacy rate of this city is ninety one percent. The scheduled castes and the scheduled tribes have population of three thousand and fifteen thousand respectively. Ninety eight percent of the populations are Hindus and a small percentage which is below one percent is Muslims and Sikhs. In northern West Bengal balurghat is a distribution center. Rice, jute, sugarcane, fisheries and oilseeds are the main goods traded here.  Transport is well developed in Balurghat with trains connecting to Kolkata directly includes gour express, tebhaga express, and Howrah-Balurghat bi weekly express. It also connects balurghat to siliguri through balurghat siliguri intercity express. Balurghat is also connected to Malda through Balughat-Malda court passenger train. National highway passes through balurghat from gazole to hili.

HERE ARE SOME BUSINESS IDEAS-BALURGHAT

1. Rice Products Shop

Rice is one of the main crops produced here. The main types of rice are basmati rice, swarna white rice, long shelf swarna rice, parboiled sharbati rice, short grain white rice, long grain basmati rice, long grain miniket rice, lamba ratna rice, aromatic tolai panji raw rice, banskathi parboiled rice, sella rice, puffed rice, organic miniket rice, zeera rice, white sugandha basmati rice, etc. With all these types of rice, rice shop is a good business idea.

 

2. Jute Products Shop

Jute is one of the chief crops produced in this city. Jute is a natural fibre crop and has high tensile strength, low extensibility, and ensures better durability and reliability of fabrics. The various jute products are jute yarn and twine, sacking cloth, hessian cloth, tarpaulin products, jute canvas, jute bags, tobacco sheets, other jute decorative items, etc. Shop made of jute product is a better business idea.

 

3. Bamboo Products Shop

Peoples like varieties of handicrafts items to decorate their homes to increase the beauty and to give an eye catching effect to outsiders. One of the most popular handicraft items are made from bamboos and these items are of high demand in the local markets and tourists are also fond of these items. Some of the bamboo products are bamboo toilet papers, utensils, speakers, towels, bottles, solar battery, bamboo floors, computer accessories, etc. Bamboo products shop is one of the best business ideas.

 

4. Oilseeds Products Shop

Seeds from cultivated crops yielding oil known as oilseeds. The different oilseed crops are groundnut, soybean, sunflower, safflower and sesame yielding high grade edible oil. The various products made from oilseeds are antioxidants, helianthus annuus, peroxide value, animal products, dairy products, vegetable oil, oilseeds, proteins, nutritional products, natural food, premium snack food, etc. Setting up an oilseed products shop can fetch a decent income in this city.

 

5. Fish Shop

Fish is appreciated by everyone. Fish contains vital nutrients and minerals which are good for the human body such as omega 3 fatty acids, vitamin D, vitamin B2, riboflavin, calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, iodine, magnesium and potassium. The different types of fish are rui, katla, pabda, hilsa, mrigel, tilapia, rohu, trout, pomfret, pulasa, kajuli, rani fish, tengra, magur, eel fish, etc. Opening a fish shop on the exact location is a good business idea.

 

6. Book Publishing House

There are various schools, colleges and educational institutions scattered all over the city. These schools, colleges and educational facilities need books for studying various subjects to prepare for exams and for gaining knowledge. Besides this, many people are fond of reading books and have a passion for story books like detective stories, fictional novels, ghost stories, comic books, etc. Opening book publishing houses is another business idea.

 

7. Moving and Packing Business

A moving company, like small truck moving or van moving, that helps peoples and businesses move their goods and supplies from one place to another. It provides all types of services like packing, loading, unloading, moving, unpacking, arranging of items to be shifted. Full service movers and packers can pack an entire house with trained packers who can carry all the belongings safely boxed up in a fraction of time. It is a sound business idea.

 

8. Jewellery Shop

In each and every cities and towns, every female, especially Indian woman have an obsession and passion for wearing jewelleries before going to attend various festivals and ceremonies like weddings, rice ceremonies for children, birthday parties, anniversary parties, cocktail parties, etc. The different types of jewelleries are earrings, nose rings, necklaces, bangles, toe rings, finger rings, bracelets, head jewellery, crowns, etc. Opening jewellery shop is a profound business idea.

 

9. Paper Products Shop

One of the most important products made from soft trees is paper. It is a versatile material with many uses. The varieties of paper found are printing paper, coated paper, tissue paper, cardboard paper, newsprint paper, paperboard, fine art paper, etc. Paper is used in writing, in making exercise books, copies, envelopes, magazines, newspapers, letter pads, wrapping different gift items, making currency papers, cards, albums, etc. Opening a paper products shop is a profound business idea.

 

10. Bakery Products Shop

Commodities used in baking are known as bakery products. Different bakery products are breads, cakes, baking cookies, muffins, pizzas, tarts, pastries, chocolate cake, cream cake, buns, candy, jelly, toffee, ice cream cones, etc. These are mainly made from wheat flour, all purpose flour, self rising flour, cake flour, etc. Setting up a bakery products shop is one of the best business ideas in this city.

 

11. Internet Café

Internet café provides the use of computers with high bandwidth internet access on the payment of a fee. It is a place to use computers to access the internet, play games, create documents, chat with friends with voice call and video call, webmail, instant messaging, and other computer related tasks. Setting up internet cafes is a sound business idea.

 

12. Flour Products Shop

Flour is an ingredient used in many foods and is a fine powder made from cereal grain or other starchy food sources. The varieties types of flour are all purpose flour, white whole wheat flour, self rising flour, cake or pastry flour, bread flour, gluten flour, semolina flour, etc. Flour is also used in making various foods like bread, pasta, crackers, pastry, cakes and in many other foods. Flour products shop is a sound business idea.

 

13. Cold Storage Units

This city produces varieties of fruits and vegetables. But if these fruits and vegetables are not maintained properly, suppose, if these items are kept at room temperature, especially in the summer season, then these food items will rot and will fall under perishable products. To keep these food products intact and fresh for long use, cold storage units are constructed. The income generated will depend on the types of items stored per day and is a good business idea.

 

14. Agro Business

We can find vast agricultural fields in every district when we enter into a rural area. For agriculture different farm machineries, equipments and tools are required. Not all farmers can afford these tools. Agro service centre can provide these tools and equipments for a cheap rate to rent these equipments to farmers to continue their farming operations smoothly. They also provide maintenance and security services to the farm machineries owned by farmer and is a good business idea.

 

15. Dry Cleaning Shop

We wear clothes every day. Clothes need to be washed and laundered frequently for further use. But adequate quantity of water and detergent is needed to wash these clothes. To save usage of lots of water and detergent, a liquid solvent is used to clean the clothes. These solvent contains no water or little water which is poured onto the clothes and used to evaporate much more quickly than water. This process is known as dry cleaning and establishing dry cleaning shop is another business idea.