Sahaganj is a neighbourhood in Bansberia of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

By the end of the Second World War, around 1946, starting with Fort Dunlop, Erdington, a suburb of Birmingham in Britain, Dunlop had manufacturing facilities in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Ireland, South Africa and India.

He picked up controlling stake, in association with the R. P. Goenka’s RPG Group, in Dunlop India, which was then ailing.

[12] The Sahaganj factory faced major hurdles, first with a 97-days strike by the trade unions in 1988,[5] and then in the early nineties with conflicting vision and strategies of the professional managers and owners over falling fortunes of the company.

Several top executives, including the managing director, Murli Dhar Shukla, left the company.

Both the earlier Left Front government and the present Trinamul Congress government, in West Bengal, have expressed concern about the state of affairs in Dunlop India, for many years a blue-chip company, but, except for short periods in 2008, 2011 and 2014, Dunlop’s Sahaganj factory has remained closed.

[18][19][20][21][22][23][24] State Highway 6 (West Bengal)/ Grand Trunk Road skirts the western edge of Sahaganj.