A high demand of iron lead to the establishment of a number of small and medium-sized iron-casting industries.

Gradually the city of Howrah was called as Sheffield of Bengal when Mr. Alamohan Das established a large factory township named Dasnagar.

All the above reasons result to a flow of population from rural belts of Howrah, Hooghly and Midnapur districts to this area to meet the high demand of labour.

The economic decline of West Bengal after partition of India also causes a big blow to Howrah's famous jute and machine-tools industries.

Currently Kadamtala is mainly a residential area, but still there exist significant number of private small scaled industrial infrastructures.

Kadamtala is connected to Kona Expressway by Dr. Bholanath Chakraborty Sarani (Formerly Drainage Canal Road), which was built by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA).

Kona Expressway serves as a connector of Kolkata (via Vidyasagar Setu) to National Highway 16 and hence is a part of the Golden Quadrilateral project.