Baranagar

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
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Region	Greater Kolkata
Metro Station	Noapara and Baranagar(under construction)
Established	1869; 155 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

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).

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.

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. ↑ Cite error: The named reference ISI was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
6. ↑ "Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Baranagar, Kolkata". Retrieved 13 June 2018.