Sealdah railway station to host monument remembering Partition displacement

Sealdah played a pivotal role during the 1947 exodus, receiving hundreds of thousands of Bengali Hindu refugees from what is now Bangladesh. Contemporary reports indicated that between 1947 and 1950 the station housed over 20,000 displaced persons at any given time, with numbers persisting into the late 1960s. A senior railway officer recalled how the platform became a first point of safety for families fleeing persecution, turning a simple transit hub into a beacon of hope and a testament to human endurance.