Gazole Town

Gazole (also spelled as Gajol) is a town in Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

[citation needed] There is an announcement that Chanchal and Gazole would be amongst the 22 new municipalities to be formed in West Bengal.

[8] The area shown in the adjacent map covers two physiographic regions – the Barind in the east and the tal in the west.

The eastern part is comparatively high (up to 40 metres above mean sea level at places) and uneven.

The area lying to the west of the Mahananda River, the tal, is a flat low land and “is strewn with innumerable marshes, bils and oxbow lakes.” The tal area is prone to flooding by local rivers.

Divisions of West Bengal