Baranagar Municipality

Summary

Baranagar Municipality is the civic body that governs Baranagar and its surrounding areas (Deshapriya Nagar, Bonhooghly, Sadhan Pally, Noapara, Palpara, Dunlop and Alambazar) in Barrackpore subdivision of North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, India.

Baranagar Municipality
Logo of Baranagar Municipality
Coat of Arms
Type
Type
History
Founded1869; 155 years ago (1869)
Leadership
Chairman
Aparna Moulik[1]
(AITC)
Vice chairman
Dilip Narayan Bose [2]
(AITC)
Structure
Seats34
Political groups
  AITC: 32 seats
  CPI(M): 2 seats
Elections
Last election
2022
Next election
TBD
Meeting place
Baranagar Municipality Headquarters
Website
www.baranagarmunicipality.org

History edit

Baranagar, an ancient region of artisan people, is situated adjacent to Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC). The place is situated on the bank of the river Hooghly. Portuguese colonies at first established their business camp here which was in existence till 1862.[3] Portuguese settlement became the seat of a Dutch trading station and an important anchorage for Dutch shipping. The Dutch had homes here in the seventeenth century. There was a hog factory where about 3,000 hogs a year were slaughtered and salted for export. Later it became the centre for the extensive jute trade, manufacturing gunny bags. In 1795, it was ceded to the British. Constituted as the Municipality of "North Suburban" in 1869, the Municipality was renamed "Baranagar" in 1889.[4]

Healthcare edit

Baranagar Municipality has two hospitals named "Baranagar Matri Sadan"[5] for women and "Eskag Sanjeevani Multispeciality Hospital".[6] There is also a government hospital named "Baranagar State General Hospital"[7] in Baranagar.

Elections edit

Baranagar Municipality has 34 wards (seats).

2022 West Bengal Municipality election edit

32 2
AITC CPI(M)
Party AITC CPI(M)
Seats 32 (94.12%) 2 (5.88%)
32 / 34
2 / 34

In the 2022 municipal elections for Baranagar Municipality, AITC won 32 seats, and CPI(M) 2 seats.[8]

2015 West Bengal Municipality election edit

32 2
AITC CPI(M)
Party AITC CPI(M)
Seats 32 (94.12%) 2 (5.88%)
32 / 34
2 / 34

In the 2015 municipal elections for Baranagar Municipality, AITC won 32 seats, and CPI(M) 2 seats.[9]

2010 West Bengal Municipality election edit

In the 2010 municipal elections for Baranagar Municipality, AITC won 20 seats, CPI(M) 11 seats, INC 2 seats, and CPI 1 seat.[10]

List of Councillors [11] edit

Ward No. Name of Councillor Party
1 Usha Bera AITC
2 Sagarika Banerjee AITC
3 Sudhangshu Awon AITC
4 Pritha Mukherjee AITC
5 Arif Hussain AITC
6 Puspa Roy AITC
7 Nilu Gupta AITC
8 Gour Jana AITC
9 Ramkrishna Paul AITC
10 Titli Patra Majumdar AITC
11 Ashoke De AITC
12 Sanchita Dey AITC
13 Dalia Mukherjee AITC
14 Santanu Majumder AITC
15 Aparna Moulik AITC
16 Sampa Chandra AITC
17 Anjan Paul AITC
18 Sunath Biswas AITC
19 Sampa Kundu AITC
20 Netai Saha AITC
21 Dilip Narayan Bose AITC
22 Swati Das CPI(M)
23 Subiman Ghosh AITC
24 Ashim Kumar Ganguly AITC
25 Susmita Chatterjee AITC
26 Alpana Naha AITC
27 Biswajit Bardhan AITC
28 Ruma Dutta AITC
29 Anindya Chaudhuri AITC
30 Jayanta Roy AITC
31 Nivedita Basak AITC
32 Sumitra Biswas AITC
33 Amar Paul AITC
34 Sisir Bhattacharya CPI(M)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Baranagar Municipality". Archived from the original on 28 September 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Vice – Chairperson of Baranagar Municipality". Archived from the original on 20 September 2017. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  3. ^ "History of Baranagar Municipality". Archived from the original on 17 June 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  4. ^ "Baranagar Municipality – Right to Information Act". Baranagar Municipality. Archived from the original on 3 January 2022. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  5. ^ "Baranagar Matri Sadan".
  6. ^ "ESKAG SANJEEVANI MULTISPECIALITY HOSPITAL". Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  7. ^ "Baranagar State General Hospital".
  8. ^ "Municipal General Election Results". Results of Municipal General Elections 2022. West Bengal State Election Commission. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  9. ^ "Municipal General Election Results". Results of Municipal General Elections 2015. West Bengal State Election Commission. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  10. ^ "Municipal General Election Results". Results of Municipal General Elections 2010. West Bengal State Election Commission. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  11. ^ "List of Councillor Municipal Election 2022" (PDF).

External links edit

  • Official website