Before the Independence of India 1947 and some later the figure of Dalkhola was idly rural area where some Pucca  and Kacha roads were connected to nearest place. The area was covered by jungle in large, in few area the people were used to live & thair main income comes from agriculture and catching fish from Buri Mahananda. That time it was ruled by Raja P.C.Lal. After Independence & partition of the country , there were enumerable refuges came to Dalkhpla from erstwhile East Pakisthan & they live in Dalkhola  market area. Before in 1956, this area was being belong to Territory of Bihar under Purnia district. In 1956 this area was transferred to Territory of West Bengal by endeavour of Chief Minister Dr. B.C.Roy. it is a important place in this spare of communication facility as NH-34 & NH-31 pass through this locality. Small villages are administered by Panchayat Raj, & they gradually develop into work-oriented busy market & that gradually convert into Small Township. With the growth of population and economic base establishment, the people of Dalkhola experienced a green revolution. In consequence, Dalkhola Municipality was set up on 1st January, 2003 for upliftment of social and economic development which provide to the local citizen for develop their livelihood. Presently the area is under the jurisdiction of Uttar- Dinajpur

Dalkhola is situated in the district of Uttar Dinajpur. Its Geographical position is such that it is situated in the lower part of North Bengal and located on NH-34 and junction point of NH-34 and NH-31 at a distance of 45 km. from Raiganj. Dalkhola is adjacent to the State of Bihar. It is transferred Territory from the State of Bihar. It is situated at the northern side of Raiganj. The sub divisional headquarter is Islampur. It lies between latitude 250 09”N to 26047”N & longitude 87047”E to 90000”E.It is surrounded by Bihar in West and southern part of the municipal area. It encloses by Bangladesh on east & some part of Karandighi block, Kishanganj on the north .It is well connected with rest of the state through National highway, Railways. It has a very close linkage with the urban area of Purina. It is well connected with both the state capital Kolkata and the neighbouring state capital Patna both through road and railways. Dalkhola has a business potentiality. Jute business is remarkable here.

YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT OF Dalkhola MUNICIPALITY:

Dalkhola Municipality has been formed on 01/01/2003 as per Notification  No. 1/MA/0/C-4/1M-14/2000 with the entire area of Dalkhola 1 and four mouza of  Dalkhola 2 gram panchayats with a population of 29783 according of census 2001.
Dalkhola Municipality is the 4th Municipality  of Uttar Dinajpur district constituted with 14 wards and first election was held on 22/06/2003 and second election was held on 29/06/2008.Sri Himadri Mukharjee was the first chairman and Sri Subhas Goshwami has become the Chairman in the second. Sri Tanay Day is the 3rd Chairman who takes the chair on

Total geographical area of the Municipality is 15.95 sq km .To the north & east of the Dalkhola municipality is the main urban centre Dalkhola.                   

The municipal area is a plain land.  Soil is clay humus. The climate of this Municipality is characterised by hot-summer with high Humidity, abundant Rainfall & cold winde. The municipality is having annual rainfall of 3736mm/annum and the temperature varies from 35oC (max) and 7oC (min). The summer begins from April, Monsoon starts from June & last still September. December& January are the coldest month.

There are twelve Primary schools & four having with Secondary facility – Dalkhola High School,Uttar Dalkhola High School, Dalkhola Girls’ High School, Dalkhola Hindi High School(Jr). Now first 3 schools consequently upgraded to Higher Secondary category. The higher education system in the town is little but resourceful. Students of these schools play stellar roles in every aspect. Also there is a college called Shree Agrasen Mahavidyalaya College. There is only health facility are provided by PHC (Primary Health Center).

Dalkhola Railway station which is a part of Eastern Railway is situated in Dalkhola Municipal area. This is going to be a model railway station under railway board project. This is one of the important stations with respect to connection of West Bengal with rest of States Patna, Kolkata, Ranchi ,Gwahati and Delhi

National Highway 31 (NH-31) & 34 (NH-34) are two main roads crossing through Dalkhola which is being connected with rest of the States. Four lane Pucca road is being constructed to improve transport and communication facilities with east and north-east part of India. Pucca road has connected the villages with the small town.

Airport is Bagdogra which is 122 km and port is Kolkata Khidirport port which is 528 km away.