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 | |
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City | |
Etymology: Bengali: বরাহনগর ("city of hogs") | |
Coordinates: 22°38′N 88°22′E / 22.64°N 88.37°ECoordinates: 22°38′N 88°22′E / 22.64°N 88.37°E | |
Country | India |
State | West Bengal |
District | North 24 Parganas |
Region | Greater Kolkata |
Metro Station | Noapara and Baranagar(under construction) |
Established | 1869 |
Government | |
• Type | Municipality |
• Body | Baranagar Municipality |
• Municipality Chairman | Aparna Moulik[1][2] |
• MLA | Tapas Roy[3] (State Minister of West Bengal) |
Area | |
• Total | 7.12 km2 (2.75 sq mi) |
Elevation | 12 m (39 ft) |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 245,313 |
• Rank | 19th (in West Bengal)[4] 187th (in India) |
• Density | 34,454/km2 (89,240/sq mi) |
Languages | |
• Official | Bengali, English |
Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
PIN | 700035, 700036, 700090, 700108 |
Vehicle registration | WB-23, WB-24, WB-25, WB-26 |
Lok Sabha constituency | Dum Dum |
Vidhan Sabha constituency | Baranagar |
Website | baranagarmunicipality |
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
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
- Ramakrishna
- Sitaramdas Omkarnath
- Sarada Devi
- Swami Vivekananda[8]
- Ramakrishnananda
- Swami Brahmananda
- Rani Rashmoni
- Sasipada Banerji
- Rajkumari Banerji
- Albion Rajkumar Banerjee
- Manik Bandopadhyay
- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rudraprasad Sengupta
- Swatilekha Sengupta
- Sohini Sengupta
- Jeet Gannguli
- Shiboprosad Mukherjee[9]
- Abhishek Chatterjee[10]
- Shaan
- Dola Banerjee[11]
- Rahul Banerjee
- Sagarika
- Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri
- C. A. Murthy
- Sabitri Chatterjee
- Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
- Atanu Das[12]
- Sanjib Chattopadhyay (Famous Bengali writer)
- Prabhabati Dutt
- Rajib Bhattacharya (Everest summiter)[13]
Education
University
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 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:
Sports
Olympic played archer Dola Banerjee, Rahul Banerjee, Atanu Das born in Baranagar.[11][12]
Many sport academies and sporting clubs are in Baranagar:
Tourist attractions
Several educational institutions, religious places, pilgrims, places of Baranagar are tourist attractions:
- Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School[6][16]
- Indian Statistical Institute[5]
- Baranagar Math[29]
- Alambazar Math[30]
- Kripamayee Kali Temple
- Pathbari Temple
- Mahamilan Math
- St. James' Church, Baranagar
- Dunlop Gurudwara
- Glass Temple
- Kuthi Ghat
- Dutch kuthi
Besides these, many people come in Baranagar every year in Durga puja period, in the time of "Ajanta Circus".
Baranagar Media
Pond Heron in Baranagar
Stork-billed Kingfisher in Baranagar
White-throated kingfisher in Baranagar
References
- ↑ Official District Administration site Archived 15 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Welcome to www.baranagarmunicipality.org". Archived from the original on 7 July 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
- ↑ "Tapas Roy, the MLA of Baranagar". The Telegraph. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
- ↑ "Provisional Population Totals, Census of India 2011" (PDF). Constituents of Urban Agglomeration Having Population Above 1 Lakh. Census of India 2011. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "ISI Kolkata Campus". Retrieved 11 November 2012.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Baranagar, Kolkata". Retrieved 13 June 2018.
- ↑ Cotton, H.E.A., Calcutta Old and New, 1909/1980, pp 806–807, General Printers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
- ↑ "Brief history of Baranagar Math". Ramakrishna Mission, Baranagar. Archived from the original on 8 July 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
- ↑ "Shiboprosad Mukherjee Biography". Retrieved 3 April 2016.
- ↑ "Abhishek Chatterjee Biography". Retrieved 11 August 2018.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Dola Banerjee, biography". archeryworldcup.org. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Shuvro Ghoshal. "From Baranagar to Shanghai: The unsung journey of Indian archer Atanu Das". Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ Everester dies in Nepal climb
- ↑ "UNSD Document – The Indian Statistical Institute Act 1959". United Nations Statistics Division. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
- ↑ "Affiliated Schools of West Bengal Board of secondary Education". Archived from the original on 2019-04-24. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Baranagar Mission". Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
- ↑ "RAMAKRISHNA MISSION CENTENARY PRIMARY SCHOOL, BARANAGORE". Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ↑ "Baranagar State General Hospital". Archived from the original on 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
- ↑ "Disha Eye Hospital, Baranagar". 14 June 2016. Archived from the original on 3 July 2019. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
- ↑ "National Institute for Locomtor Disabilities (Divyangjan)". Retrieved 5 September 2015.
- ↑ "Baranagar Matri Sadan".
- ↑ "Indian Institute of Psycometry, Baranagar, Kolkata".
- ↑ 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". Archived from the original on 2019-01-24. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
- ↑ "Bandhudal Sporting Club, Baranagar". Archived from the original on 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
- ↑ Shamik Chakraborty. "Archery's Hope". Retrieved 24 October 2010.
- ↑ Baranagar Archery Club - Google Search
- ↑ "The goal of the goal is to run away". Ei Samay. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- ↑ "HOME | Baranagar Sporting Club". Barnagar Sporting C. Archived from the original on 2023-02-25. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
- ↑ "RKM – Index". Archived from the original on 29 May 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
- ↑ "AlambazarMath". Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
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