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Baranagar

Baranagar or Baranagore is a city and municipality of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is in the region of Greater Kolkata and therefore is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA).

Baranagore
City
Etymology: Bengali: বরাহনগর ("city of hogs")
Coordinates: 22°38′N 88°22′E / 22.64°N 88.37°E / 22.64; 88.37Coordinates: 22°38′N 88°22′E / 22.64°N 88.37°E / 22.64; 88.37
Country India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictNorth 24 Parganas
RegionGreater Kolkata
Metro StationNoapara and Baranagar(under construction)
Established1869; 157 years ago (1869)
Government
 • TypeMunicipality
 • BodyBaranagar Municipality
 • Municipality ChairmanAparna Moulik[1][2]
 • MLATapas Roy[3] (State Minister of West Bengal)
Area
 • Total7.12 km2 (2.75 sq mi)
Elevation
12 m (39 ft)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total245,313
 • Rank19th (in West Bengal)[4]
187th (in India)
 • Density34,454/km2 (89,240/sq mi)
Languages
 • OfficialBengali, English
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
700035, 700036, 700090, 700108
Vehicle registrationWB-23, WB-24, WB-25, WB-26
Lok Sabha constituencyDum Dum
Vidhan Sabha constituencyBaranagar
Websitebaranagarmunicipality.org

It is home to the Indian Statistical Institute for research, teaching and application of statistics, natural sciences and social sciences.[5] Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School is one of the oldest and renowned schools in Baranagar and North 24 Parganas.[6]

Baranagar is a major industrial centre for the manufacture of agricultural and industrial machinery, chemicals, castor oil, and matches. There are also many cotton-processing companies.

Name

Pronunciation of Baranagar in Bengali

The word Baranagar derives from the Bengali term Barahanagore (Bengali: বরাহনগর), meaning "City of the Hogs". (বরাহ: hog, নগর: city)

Streynsham Master who visited the area in 1676 spoke of the hog factory where about 3,000 hogs a year were slaughtered and salted for export.[7]

Famous residents

Education

University

Indian Statistical Institute, Baranagar

Baranagar houses the headquarters of the Indian Statistical Institute.[5] It is an academic institute of national importance as recognised by a 1959 act of the Indian parliament. Established in 1931, this public university of India is focused on statistics.[14]

Colleges

Colleges of Baranagar are:

Schools

Baranagar Ramakrishna Mission
Baranagar Victoria School

Baranagar is also home to many schools providing quality education to the local and neighbourhood people.[15]

  • Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School[16] (Senior secondary boys' school)
  • Ramakrishna Mission Centenary Primary School, Baranagaore[17] (Primary boys' school)
  • Baranagar Vidyamandir (Primary, Secondary and H.S., for boys and girls)
  • Baranagar Narendranath Vidyamandir
  • Baranagar Rajkumari Memorial Girls' School
  • Khalsa Model Senior Secondary School, Dunlop Bridge (Started by Sikh Sangat Gurdwara, Dunlop Bridge)
  • Ananda Ashram Sarada Vidyapith
  • Baranagar Netaji Colony Bharti Girls' Institution
  • Netaji High School
  • Baranagar Rameswar H.S. School
  • Baranagar Victoria School, Kuthighat
  • Ashokegarh Adarsha Vidyalaya
  • Jyotinagar Bidyashree Niketan
  • Sinthi Ram Krishna Sangha Vidya Mandir
  • Sinthee Ray Bahadur Badridas Tulsan Vidyapith (RBT School)
  • Mata Monmohini Secondary School
  • Baranagar Mayapith Girls' High School
  • Delhi Public School North Kolkata
  • Calcutta Public School, Bidhan Park
  • Baranagar Mohan Girls' High School
  • Central Modern School, Baranagar
  • Alambazar Urdu High School
  • Jyotinagar Vidyashree Niketan

Health facilities

Following hospitals are located in Baranagar:

  • Baranagar State General Hospital[18]
  • Disha Eye Hospital, Sinthi[19]
  • National Institute for Locomotor Disability (NILD)[20]
  • Baine Hospital
  • Baranagar Matri Sadan[21]
  • Indian Institute of Psycometry (IIP)[22]

Sports

Olympic played archer Dola Banerjee, Rahul Banerjee, Atanu Das born in Baranagar.[11][12]

Many sport academies and sporting clubs are in Baranagar:

  • Nobodoy Football Academy[23]
  • Seishinkai Indian Karate Do & Kick Boxing Institute[23]
  • Bandhudal Sporting Club[24]
  • Calcutta Archery Club[25]
  • Baranagar Archery Club[26][27]
  • Baranagar Sporting Club[28]

Tourist attractions

Kuthi Ghat
Glass Temple

Several educational institutions, religious places, pilgrims, places of Baranagar are tourist attractions:

Besides these, many people come in Baranagar every year in Durga puja period, in the time of "Ajanta Circus".

Baranagar Media

  • Map of Bengal by De Barros in 1550 showing "Bernagar" which refers to Baranagar

  • The remainants of old ruined Dutch Kuthi, on the way from RatanBabu ghat to Kuthi Ghat

  • Map of Bengal by Van de Broucke in 1660 showing "Barrenger" which refers to Baranagar

  • Baranagar Police station

  • AUM, a stylised letter of Devanagari script, used as a religious symbol in Hinduism

  • A symbol of Islam, the star and crescent, in a green. Created by Kbolino in Inkscape, who releases the image into the public domain for all intents and purposes.

  • The Sikh Khanda symbol (U+262C).

  • Basic Latin cross

  • Baranagar Kuthi Ghat

References

  1. ↑ Official District Administration site Archived 15 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Welcome to www.baranagarmunicipality.org. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  3. ↑ Tapas Roy, the MLA of BaranagarThe Telegraph. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  4. ↑ Provisional Population Totals, Census of India 2011. Constituents of Urban Agglomeration Having Population Above 1 LakhCensus of India 2011. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 ISI Kolkata Campus. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Baranagar, Kolkata. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
  7. ↑ Cotton, H.E.A., Calcutta Old and New, 1909/1980, pp 806–807, General Printers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
  8. ↑ Brief history of Baranagar MathRamakrishna Mission, Baranagar. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  9. ↑ Shiboprosad Mukherjee Biography. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  10. ↑ Abhishek Chatterjee Biography. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Dola Banerjee, biography. archeryworldcup.org.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Shuvro Ghoshal. From Baranagar to Shanghai: The unsung journey of Indian archer Atanu Das. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  13. ↑ Everester dies in Nepal climb
  14. ↑ UNSD Document – The Indian Statistical Institute Act 1959United Nations Statistics Division. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  15. ↑ Affiliated Schools of West Bengal Board of secondary Education. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Baranagar Mission. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  17. ↑ RAMAKRISHNA MISSION CENTENARY PRIMARY SCHOOL, BARANAGORE. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  18. ↑ Baranagar State General Hospital. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  19. ↑ Disha Eye Hospital, Baranagar (14 June 2016). Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  20. ↑ National Institute for Locomtor Disabilities (Divyangjan). Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  21. ↑ Baranagar Matri Sadan. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  22. ↑ Indian Institute of Psycometry, Baranagar, Kolkata.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Exametc.com - Browse all India examination results and notifications of Secondary board, Higher secondary board, university, competitive examination and entrance examination. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  24. ↑ Bandhudal Sporting Club, Baranagar. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  25. ↑ Shamik Chakraborty. Archery's Hope. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
  26. ↑ Baranagar Archery Club - Google Search
  27. ↑ The goal of the goal is to run awayEi Samay. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  28. ↑ HOME | Baranagar Sporting Club (in en). Barnagar Sporting C. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  29. ↑ RKM – Index. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  30. ↑ AlambazarMath. Retrieved 9 September 2013.

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