| Type | Municipality
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| Chairman | Aparna Moulik[1] Template:Small |
| Vice Chairman | Dilip Narayan Bose[2] Template:Small
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| Structure | Baranagar Municipality Ward-Wise Ruling Party.jpg
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| Meeting place | Baranagar Municipality Headquarters |
| Session room | Baranagar (M).jpg |
| Website | Template:URL |
Baranagar Municipality is the civic body that governs Baranagar areas (Alambazar, Bonhooghly, Noapara and Dunlop) in the Barrackpore subdivision of North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, India.[3]
History
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.[4] 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.[5]
Healthcare
Baranagar Municipality has two hospitals named "Baranagar Matri Sadan"[6] for women and "Eskag Sanjeevani Multispeciality Hospital".[7] There is also a government hospital named "Baranagar State General Hospital"[8] in Baranagar.
Elections
Baranagar Municipality has 34 wards.
2022 West Bengal Municipality election
| style="background:Template:Party color; width:94.12%;" |32 | style="background:Template:Party color; width:5.88%;" |2 |
| AITC | CPI(M) |
| Party | AITC | CPI(M) |
|---|---|---|
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In the 2022 municipal elections for Baranagar Municipality, AITC won 32 seats, and CPI(M) 2 seats.[9]
2015 West Bengal Municipality election
| style="background:Template:Party color; width:94.12%;" |32 | style="background:Template:Party color; width:5.88%;" |2 |
| AITC | CPI(M) |
| Party | AITC | CPI(M) |
|---|---|---|
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In the 2015 municipal elections for Baranagar Municipality, AITC won 32 seats, and CPI(M) 2 seats.[10]
2010 West Bengal Municipality election
| style="background:Template:Party color; width:58.8%;" |20 | style="background:Template:Party color; width:32.3%;" |11 | style="background:Template:Party color; width:5.8%;" |2 | style="background:Template:Party color; width:2.9%;" |1 |
| AITC | CPI(M) | INC | CPI |
| Party | AITC | CPI(M) | INC | CPI |
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In the 2010 municipal elections for Baranagar Municipality, AITC won 20 seats, CPI(M) 11 seats, INC 2 seats, and CPI 1 seat.[11]
List of Councillors
Following is the list of councillors of Baranagar Municipality at present: [12]
| Ward No. | Name of Councillor | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Usha Bera | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 2 | Sagarika Banerjee | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 3 | Sudhangshu Awon | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 4 | Pritha Mukherjee | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 5 | Arif Hussain | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 6 | Puspa Roy | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 7 | Nilu Gupta | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 8 | Gour Jana | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 9 | Ramkrishna Paul | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 10 | Titli Patra Majumdar | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 11 | Ashoke De | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 12 | Sanchita Dey | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 13 | Dalia Mukherjee | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 14 | Santanu Majumder | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 15 | Aparna Moulik | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 16 | Sampa Chandra | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 17 | Anjan Paul | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 18 | Sunath Biswas | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 19 | Sampa Kundu | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 20 | Netai Saha | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 21 | Dilip Narayan Bose | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 22 | Swati Das | CPI(M) | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 23 | Subiman Ghosh | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 24 | Ashim Kumar Ganguly | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 25 | Susmita Chatterjee | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 26 | Alpana Naha | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 27 | Biswajit Bardhan | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 28 | Ruma Dutta | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 29 | Anindya Chaudhuri | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 30 | Jayanta Roy | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 31 | Nivedita Basak | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 32 | Sumitra Biswas | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 33 | Amar Paul | AITC | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
| 34 | Sisir Bhattacharya | CPI(M) | style="background-color: Template:Party color"| |
See also
References
- ↑ Baranagar Municipality. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
- ↑ Vice – Chairperson of Baranagar Municipality. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
- ↑ Baranagar Municipality. Barrackpore sub-division. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
- ↑ History of Baranagar Municipality. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- ↑ Baranagar Municipality – Right to Information Act. Baranagar Municipality. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
- ↑ Baranagar Matri Sadan. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
- ↑ ESKAG SANJEEVANI MULTISPECIALITY HOSPITAL. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
- ↑ Baranagar State General Hospital. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
- ↑ Municipal General Election Results. West Bengal State Election Commission. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
- ↑ Municipal General Election Results. West Bengal State Election Commission. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
- ↑ Municipal General Election Results. West Bengal State Election Commission. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
- ↑ List of Councillor Municipal Election 2022.
External links
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