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).

Baranagar Baranagore
City
Etymology: Bengali: বরাহনগর ("city of hogs")
Coordinates: 22.64°N 88.37°E / 22.64; 88.37
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Region	Greater Kolkata
Metro Station	Noapara and Baranagar(under construction)
Established	1869; 156 years ago (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	34,000/km2 (89,000/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Bengali, English
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	700035, 700036, 700090, 700108
Telephone code	+91 33
Vehicle registration	WB-23, WB-24, WB-25, WB-26
Lok Sabha constituency	Dum Dum
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Baranagar
Website	baranagarmunicipality.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

• 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

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:

• Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College
• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Mahavidyalaya

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:

• 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".