North 24 Parganas district

Coordinates: 22°08′N 88°30′E / 22.13°N 88.50°E / 22.13; 88.50
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North 24 Parganas
District
Clockwise from top-left:
Hingalganj
Area
 • Total4,094 km2 (1,581 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total10,009,781
 • Density2,400/km2 (6,300/sq mi)
Demographics
 • Literacy84.95 percent[1]
 • Sex ratio949
Time zoneUTC+05:30 (IST)
Major highwaysNH 12, NH 112
HDI (2004)Increase 0.660[2] (medium)
Average annual precipitation1579 mm
Websitewww.north24parganas.gov.in

North 24 Parganas (abv. 24 PGS (N)) or sometimes North Twenty Four Parganas is a district in southern

tropical zone from latitude 22° 11′ 6″ north to 23° 15′ 2″ north and from longitude 88º20' east to 89º5' east. Barasat is the district headquarters of North 24 Parganas. North 24 Parganas is West Bengal's most populous district[3]
and also (since 2014) the most populated district in the whole of India. It is the tenth-largest district in the State by area.

History

Pre-independence

The territory of Greater 24 Parganas were under the

British East India Company
. These Parganas are: 1. Akbarpur, 2. Amirpur, 3. Asimabad, 4. Balia, 5. Baridhati, 6. Basandhari, 7. Birati, 8. Calcutta, 9. Dakshin Sagar, 10. Garh, 11. Hathiagarh, 12. Ikhtiarpur, 13. Kharijuri, 14. Khaspur, 15. Maidanmal or Mednimall, 16. Magura, 17. Mayda, 18. Manpur, 19. Murnagacha, 20. Paika, 21. Pechakul, 22. Satal, 23. Shahnagar, 24. Shahpur, and 25. Uttar Pargana (O'Mally, L.S.S. (1914) Bengal District Gazetteers: 24 Parganas. Page 44). Since then, this entire territory is known as '24 Parganas'.

In 1751, the Company assigned

zemindar of the District.[4] In 1759, after the Bengali War of 1756–1757, the Company assigned it to Lord Clive
as a personal Jaghir (zamindari) and after his death it again came under the direct authority of the company.

In 1793, during the rule of

Sunderbans were in Twentyfour Parganas. In 1802, some parganas on the western banks of river Hoogly were included into it. These parganas were in Nadia earlier. In 1814, a separate collectorate was established in Twenty-four Parganas. In 1817, Falta and Baranagar and in 1820, some portions of Nadia's Balanda and Anwarpur were encompassed to it. In 1824, portions of Barasat, Khulna and Bakhargunge (now in Bangladesh) were also included to it. In 1824, the district headquarters was shifted from Kolkata to Baruipur, but in 1828, it was removed to Alipore. In 1834, the district was split into two districts – Alipore and Barasat
, but later these were united again.

In 1905, some portion of this district around the Sunderbans was detached and linked to Khulna and Barishal. These parts remained in Bangladesh territories where Jessore's Bangaon was joined to Twentyfour Pargana after the 1947 partition.

After Independence

In 1980, an administrative reform committee under the chairmanship of Dr. Ashok Mitra suggested splitting the district into two and as per the recommendation of the committee in 1983, on 1 March 1986, two new districts – North 24 Parganas (24 PGS (N)) and South 24 Parganas (24 PGS (S)) were created. The North 24 Parganas which was included in the Presidency division has been formed with five sub-divisions of the Greater 24 Parganas, namely Barasat Sadar (Headquarters), Barrackpore, Basirhat, Bangaon, and Bidhannagar (a satellite township of Kolkata, popularly known as Salt Lake).

On 1 August 2022, the

Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee announced to create two more districts named Ichamati district consisting of Bangaon subdivision and a yet unnamed district consisting of Basirhat subdivision by bifurcating the district for better development and smooth administration purpose.[5]

Geography

The district lies within the

Ganga that is river Hooghly flows along the western border of the district. There are many other distributary branches, sub-branches of Ganga river and other local rivers, which include the Ichhamati, Jamuna, and Bidyadhari
.

Economy

Omega and Infinity Benchmark, office buildings in Salt Lake, Kolkata
The Bengal Intelligent Park in Sector V.
The Cognizant Technology Solutions office in Sector V.

People are mainly engaged in farming, fishing and other agricultural activities. The average size of agricultural landholdings is about 3.2 Bighas. North 24 Parganas is one of the economically developed districts of West Bengal, but there is chronic poverty in the southern half of the district (the Sundarbans area).

The information technology hub of

Salt Lake City
.

Divisions

Administrative subdivisions

Administrative Map of North 24 Parganas

The district comprises five subdivisions: Barrackpore, Barasat Sadar, Basirhat, Bangaon and Bidhannagar.

Barasat is the district headquarters. There are 35 police stations, 22 development blocks, 27 municipalities, 200 gram panchayats and 1599 villages in this district.[7][8]

Other than municipality area, each subdivision contains community development blocks which in turn are divided into rural areas and census towns. In total there are 48 urban units: 27 municipalities and 20 census towns and 1 cantonment board.[8][9]

Barrackpore subdivision

Barasat Sadar subdivision

Bangaon subdivision

  • 1 municipality: Bangaon.
  • Bagdah (Community development block)
    consists of rural areas only with 9 gram panchayats.
  • Bangaon (Community development block)
    consists of rural areas only with 16 gram panchayats.
  • Gaighata (Community development block)
    consists of rural areas with 13 gram panchayats and seven census towns: Chandpara(7,113), Chhekati (4,995), Sonatikiri (6,919), Dhakuria (10,165), Chikanpara (9,594), Shimulpur (20,803) and Bara (5,172).

Basirhat subdivision

Bidhannagar subdivision

This subdivision consists of the[7] Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation.

  • Rajarhat (Community development block) is also shifted to this subdivision now.[11]

Assembly constituencies

As per order of the

delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, the district is divided into 33 assembly constituencies:[13][14]

Sl. No. Name Lok Sabha constituency MLA Party
94 Bagdah (SC)
Bangaon
 Biswajit Das Bharatiya Janata Party
95 Bangaon Uttar (SC) Ashok Kirtania Bharatiya Janata Party
96 Bangaon Dakshin (SC) Swapan Majumder Bharatiya Janata Party
97 Gaighata (SC) Subrata Thakur Bharatiya Janata Party
98 Swarupnagar (SC) Bina Mondal
All India Trinamool Congress
99 Baduria Basirhat Abdur Rahim Quazi
All India Trinamool Congress
100 Habra Barasat Jyotipriya Mallick
All India Trinamool Congress
101 Ashokenagar Narayan Goswami
All India Trinamool Congress
102 Amdanga Barrackpore Rafiqur Rahaman
All India Trinamool Congress
103 Bijpur Subodh Adhikary
All India Trinamool Congress
104 Naihati Partha Bhowmick
All India Trinamool Congress
105 Bhatpara Pawan Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
106 Jagatdal Somenath Shyam Ichini
All India Trinamool Congress
107 Noapara Manju Basu
All India Trinamool Congress
108 Barrackpore Raj Chakraborty
All India Trinamool Congress
109 Khardaha Dum Dum Sovandeb Chattopadhyay
All India Trinamool Congress
110 Dum Dum Uttar Chandrima Bhattacharya
All India Trinamool Congress
111 Panihati Nirmal Ghosh
All India Trinamool Congress
112 Kamarhati Madan Mitra
All India Trinamool Congress
113 Baranagar Tapas Roy Bharatiya Janata Party
114 Dum Dum Bratya Basu
All India Trinamool Congress
115 Rajarhat New Town Barasat Tapash Chatterjee
All India Trinamool Congress
116 Bidhannagar Sujit Bose
All India Trinamool Congress
117 Rajarhat Gopalpur Dum Dum Aditi Munshi
All India Trinamool Congress
118 Madhyamgram Barasat Rathin Ghosh
All India Trinamool Congress
119 Barasat Chiranjeet Chakraborty
All India Trinamool Congress
120 Deganga Rahima Mondal
All India Trinamool Congress
121 Haroa Basirhat Haji Nurul Islam
All India Trinamool Congress
122 Minakhan (SC) Usha Rani Mondal
All India Trinamool Congress
123 Sandeshkhali (ST) Sukumar Mahata
All India Trinamool Congress
124 Basirhat Dakshin Dr. Saptarshi Banerjee
All India Trinamool Congress
125 Basirhat Uttar Rafikul Islam Mondal
All India Trinamool Congress
126 Hingalganj (SC) Debes Mandal
All India Trinamool Congress

Education

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Universities

Indian Statistical Institute, Baranagar
West Bengal State University, located at Barasat, the main general degree university of the district

Colleges

Narula Institute of Technology

Schools

Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School

Culture

Dakshineswar Kali Temple
Durga idol at a pandel in Baranagar

This district is rich in culture. Many famous places like

Basanti puja
etc.

Transport

Railways

The electrified

Hooghly
etc.

The Circular Rail encircles the entire city of Kolkata, and also used to provide an offshoot to connect the Dum Dum Airport, but now it is limited up to Dum Dum Cantonment. Jessore Road and Biman Bandar railway stations are closed for the construction work of Noapara–Dum Dum Airport–Barasat Metro rail (Kolkata Metro Line 4).[22]

Noapara, Baranagar.[23]

Airports

See also:
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport
Cityside view of the new Integrated Terminal of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport

The

North 24 Parganas, is the only airport serving the city Kolkata
. It operates both domestic and international flights. It is a gateway to North-East India, Bangkok, and Bangladesh. The number of people using the airport has consistently increased over the last few years.

Roadways

The road network is fairly well developed. Sparsed across by state-highways, it provides a convenient means of transport. NH 12 connects the district with northern and southern region of the state and its sub road NH 112 connect the district headquarter Barasat with the border town Bangaon and Petrapole, the largest land port of India.

Demographics

See also: List of West Bengal districts ranked by literacy rate
Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
19011,016,001—    
19111,166,158+1.39%
19211,239,719+0.61%
19311,357,831+0.91%
19411,711,806+2.34%
19512,114,097+2.13%
19613,127,685+3.99%
19714,207,420+3.01%
19815,529,497+2.77%
19917,281,881+2.79%
20018,934,286+2.07%
201110,009,781+1.14%
source:[24]

According to the

640) and first in its state.[3] However, in 2014 the Thane district (in Maharashtra), which had been ranked first in India in 2011, was divided into two, thus promoting North 24 Parganas District to first in India. The district has a population density of 2,463 inhabitants per square kilometre (6,380/sq mi).[3] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001–2011 was 12.86%.[3] North Twenty Four Parganas has a sex ratio of 949 females for every 1000 males,[3] and a literacy rate of 84.95%. 57.28% of the population lives in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 21.67% and 2.64% of the population respectively.[3]

Religion

Religion in North 24 Parganas district (2011)[29]
Hinduism
 
 73.76%
Islam
 
 25.52%
Other or not stated
 
 0.72%
Religion in present-day North 24 Parganas district[a]
Religion Population (1941)[30]: 80–81  Percentage (1941) Population (2011)[29] Percentage (2011)
Hinduism 927,418 57.09% 7,396,769 73.76%
Islam 648,920 39.95% 2,584,684 25.52%
Tribal religion 41,105 2.53% 2,930 0.03%
Others [b] 6,994 0.43% 69,398 0.69%
Total Population 1,624,437 100% 10,009,781 100%
Population by religion in CD blocks
CD Block Hindu Muslim Other
Bagdah 82.00% 17.42% 0.58%
Bongaon 78.17% 20.83% 1.00%
Gaighata 93.27% 6.42% 0.31%
Swarupnagar 54.85% 45.20% 0.25%
Habra I 73.51% 25.81% 0.68%
Habra II 53.85% 45.76% 0.39%
Amdanga 43.30% 56.48% 0.22%
Barrackpur I 84.38% 14.46% 1.15%
Barrackpur II 77.71% 21.45% 0.84%
Barasat I 57.10% 42.08% 0.49%
Barasat II 30.05% 69.68% 0.26%
Deganga 28.79% 70.92% 0.29%
Baduria 35.35% 64.48% 0.17%
Basirhat I 32.25% 67.54% 0.22%
Basirhat II 31.67% 68.10% 0.23%
Haroa 39.75% 60.12% 0.12%
Rajarhat 59.41% 39.89% 0.69%
Minakhan 48.76% 50.60% 0.63%
Sandeshkhali I 70.00% 30.05% 0.10%
Sandeshkhali II 77.17% 22.27% 0.55%
Hasnabad 43.35% 56.51% 0.14%
Hingalganj 87.97% 11.82% 0.21%
Area not under any Sub-district 89.17% 9.84% 0.99%

Hinduism is the main religion in the district, and especially dominates urban areas where they are nearly 90% of the population. Most Muslims are rural, and in the rural areas Hindus and Muslims are in equal proportions. In Bongaon and Sandeshkhali regions, Hindus, mainly descendants of refugees from present-day Bangladesh, dominate the rural population. But in the rest of the district, Muslims dominate the rural population.

Languages

Languages of North 24 Parganas district (2011)[31]

  Bengali (88.91%)
  Hindi (7.69%)
  Urdu (2.28%)
  Others (1.12%)

According to the 2011 census, 88.91% of the population spoke Bengali, 7.69% Hindi and 2.28% Urdu as their first language.[31]

Flora and fauna

The district is also home to the Bibhutibhushan Wildlife Sanctuary, which was established in 1985 and has an area of 0.6 km2 (0.2 sq mi).[32]

Health facilities

  • District Hospitals: 10 with 2500 beds
  • Sub Divisional Hospitals: 14 with 1870 beds
  • State General Hospitals: 18 with 1870 beds
  • ESI Hospital: 01 with 200 beds
  • Rural Hospitals: 07 with 228 beds
  • Block Primary Health Centers: 15

Notable people

Citations

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  1. ^ Barrackpore, Barasat and Basirhat subdivisions, along with Bongaon and Gaighata thanas of Bongaon subdivision in Jessore district.
  2. ^ Including Jainism, Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Ad-Dharmis, or not stated

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