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Baranagar

City in West Bengal, India

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).

Baranagar
Baranagore
City
Etymology: Bengali: বরাহনগর ("city of hogs")
Coordinates: 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; 155 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)
 • Density34,000/km2 (89,000/sq mi)
Languages
 • OfficialBengali, English
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
700035, 700036, 700090, 700108
Telephone code+91 33
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

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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

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Education

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University

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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

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Colleges of Baranagar are:

Schools

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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

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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

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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

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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".

References

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  1. ↑ Official District Administration site Archived 15 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "Welcome to www.baranagarmunicipality.org". Archived from the original on 7 July 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  3. ↑ "Tapas Roy, the MLA of Baranagar". The Telegraph. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  4. ↑ "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. ↑ 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 Math". Ramakrishna Mission, Baranagar. Archived from the original on 8 July 2013. 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. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011.
  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 1959". United Nations Statistics Division. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  15. ↑ "Affiliated Schools of West Bengal Board of secondary Education". Archived from the original on 2019-04-24. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Baranagar Mission". Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  17. ↑ "RAMAKRISHNA MISSION CENTENARY PRIMARY SCHOOL, BARANAGORE". Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  18. ↑ "Baranagar State General Hospital". Archived from the original on 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  19. ↑ "Disha Eye Hospital, Baranagar". 14 June 2016. Archived from the original on 3 July 2019. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  20. ↑ "National Institute for Locomtor Disabilities (Divyangjan)". Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  21. ↑ "Baranagar Matri Sadan". Archived from the original on 2021-06-14. 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". Archived from the original on 2019-01-24. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  24. ↑ "Bandhudal Sporting Club, Baranagar". Archived from the original on 2019-07-03. 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 away". Ei Samay. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  28. ↑ "HOME | Baranagar Sporting Club". Barnagar Sporting C. Archived from the original on 2023-02-25. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  29. ↑ "RKM – Index". Archived from the original on 29 May 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  30. ↑ "AlambazarMath". Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2013.

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