Alipore Sadar
Subdivision
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Coordinates: 22°32′21″N 88°19′38″E / 22.5391712°N 88.3272782°E / 22.5391712; 88.3272782
Country India
State West Bengal
DivisionPresidency
DistrictSouth 24 Parganas
HeadquartersAlipore
Area
 • Total427.28 km2 (164.97 sq mi)
Elevation
9 m (30 ft)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total1,490,342
 • Density3,500/km2 (9,000/sq mi)
Languages
 • OfficialBengali[1][2]
 • Additional officialEnglish[1]
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
700027
Telephone code+91 33
Vehicle registrationWB-19 to WB-22, WB-95 to WB-99
Lok Sabha constituenciesDiamond Harbour, Jadavpur, Kolkata Dakshin
Vidhan Sabha constituenciesSatgachhia, Bishnupur (SC), Kasba, Jadavpur, Tollygunge, Behala Purba, Behala Paschim, Maheshtala, Budge Budge, Metiaburuz
Websites24pgs.gov.in

Alipore Sadar subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Subdivisions

South 24 Parganas district is divided into five administrative subdivisions:[3]

Subdivision Headquarters
Area
km2		 Population
(2011)		 Urban
Population %
(2011)		 Rural
Population %
(2011)
Alipore Sadar Alipore 427.43 1,490,342 59.85 40.15
Baruipur Baruipur 1,355.44 2,396,643 31.05 68.95
Canning Canning 1,103.73 1,140,562 12.37 87.63
Diamond Harbour Diamond Harbour 1,264.68 2,125,758 14.61 85.39
Kakdwip Kakdwip 1,389.93 1,008,653 0 100
South 24 Parganas Alipore 9,960,00 8,161,961 25.58 74.42

18.26% of the total population of South 24 Parganas district live in Alipore Sadar subdivision.

Administrative units

Alipore Sadar subdivision has 5 police stations, 5 community development blocks, 5 panchayat samitis, 45 gram panchayats, 268 mouzas, 243 inhabited villages, 3 municipalities and 36 census towns. The municipalities are at Budge Budge, Maheshtala and Pujali . The census towns are: Joka, Chata Kalikapur, Ganye Gangadharpur, Rameswarpur, Asuti, Hanspukuria, Kalua, Ramchandrapur, Samali, Uttar Raypur, Balarampur, Buita, Benjanhari Acharial (P), Abhirampur, Nischintapur, Birlapur, Chak Kashipur, Chak Alampur, Bowali, Dakshin Raypur, Poali, Daulatpur, Bhasa, Bishnupur, Kanyanagar, Nahazari, Nadabhanga, Kanganbaria, Bora Gagangohalia, Chanddandaha, Barkalikapur, Patharberia, Ramkrishnapur, Amtala, Kriparampur and Chak Enayetnagar.[3][4] [5][6]

Kolkata Urban Agglomeration

The following Municipalities and census towns in South 24 Parganas district were part of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration in the 2011 census: Maheshtala (M), Joka (CT), Balarampur (CT), Chata Kalikapur (CT), Budge Budge (M), Nischintapur (CT), Uttar Raypur (CT), Pujali (M) and Rajpur Sonarpur (M).[7]

Police stations

Police stations in Alipore Sadar subdivision have the following features and jurisdiction:[3][8]

Police station Area covered
(km2)		 Border (km) Municipal town/ city CD Block
Maheshtala 53.137 - Maheshtala Thakurpukur Maheshtala
Rabindranagar 6 - Maheshtala Thakurpukur Maheshtala
Bishnupur 211 - - Bishnupur I, Bishnupur II
Budge Budge 49.61 - Budge Budge, Pujali Budge Budge I
Nodakhali 192.118 - - Budge Budge I, Budge Budge II

Blocks

Community development blocks in Alipore Sadar subdivision are:[3][9][10]

CD Block Headquarters
Area
km2		 Population
(2011)		 SC % ST % Hindus % Muslims % Literacy
Rate %		 Census
Towns
Thakurpukur Maheshtala Behala 63.08 176,203 34.26 0.29 67.32 26.64 83.54 9
Budge Budge I Purba Nischintapur 26.55 112,908 19.47 0.15 52.41 47.39 80.57 7
Budge Budge II Dongaria 78.00 192,134 20.04 0.14 67.55 32.23 79.13 5
Bishnupur I Bishnupur 116.36 232,365 46.66 0.04 63.46 31.04 78.21 4
Bishnupur II Bakrahat 81.71 214,531 15.56 0.04 61.92 37.60 81.37 11

Gram panchayats

The subdivision contains 43 gram panchayats under 5 community development blocks:[11][12]

Industry

The Alipore Sadar subdivision includes Budge Budge, an old industrial town on the bank of the Hooghly, The jute industry, a major talking-point about the area has been facing labour unrest and sheer competition from jute mills in Bangladesh. A slightly older report by Shodganga mentions 9 jute mills in Budge Budge and 1 in Maheshtala. The MSME report mentions 6 jute mills and Budge Budge Municipality talks of four major jute mills – Budge Budge Jute Mill, Cheviot Jute Mill, Caledonian Jute Mill and New Central Jute Mill. Birla Jute Mill is at Birlapur. Such giants as Budge Budge and Allied Jute Exports Ltd have closed. India Linoleums Ltd. at Birlapur produces linoleum. Budge Budge has a number of oil storage units.[13][14][15][16][17] Bata India opened its first shoe factory in 1934 at Batanagar.[18]Budge Budge Thermal Power Station of CESC Limited has a generating capacity of 750 MW.[19]

“The whole of the jute mill area in Bengal was located on the either side of the river Hooghly, in a radius of about 50 kilometer north and south of Calcutta from Bansberia in the north, to Budge Budge in the South,” said a report of the Vidyasagar University. It further said that although jute mill workers were earlier local people, subsequently migrants formed a sizeable section of the population, because “agriculture in Bengal was more remunerative than work in the jute mills but what the jute mills paid was enough to attract labour from Bihar, Orissa, UP, CP and even Tamilnadu”. Much the same happened in other industries of the period.[20]

Education

South 24 Parganas district had a literacy rate of 77.51% as per the provisional figures of the census of India 2011. Alipore Sadar subdivision had a literacy rate of 81.14%, Baruipur subdivision 77.45%, Canning subdivision 70.98%, Diamond Harbour subdivision 76.26% and Kakdwip subdivision 82.04%[21]

Given in the table below (data in numbers) is a comprehensive picture of the education scenario in South 24 Parganas district, with data for the year 2013-14:[21]

Subdivision Primary
School 		Middle
School 		High
School 		Higher Secondary
School 		General
College, Univ 		Technical /
Professional Instt 		Non-formal
Education
Institution Student Institution Student Institution Student Institution Student Institution Student Institution Student Institution Student
Alipore Sadar 531 53,719 34 4,455 50 16,471 91 66,813 5 8,122 6 3,094 1,379 53,429
Baruipur 883 132,649 65 8,954 50 26,443 128 129,195 8 27,657 7 6,735 3,116 138,507
Canning 532 81,697 59 9,181 29 10,515 55 57,921 4 5,490 1 n/a 2,105 96,622
Diamond Harbour 1,212 116,407 61 6,680 98 38,470 145 113,147 7 20,061 5 1,774 3,140 137,378
Kakdwip 598 53,058 45 5,654 48 20,383 82 56,192 3 5,420 1 100 1,844 78,897
South 24 Parganas district* 3,756 437,530 264 34,924 275 118,282 501 423,268 27 66,750 20 11,703 11,584 504,833

.* Does not include data for portions of South 24 Parganas district functioning under Kolkata Municipal Corporation

The following institutions are located in Alipore Sadar subdivision:

Healthcare

The table below (all data in numbers) presents an overview of the medical facilities available and patients treated in the hospitals, health centres and sub-centres in 2014 in South 24 Parganas district.[28]

Subdivision Health & Family Welfare Deptt, WB Other
State
Govt
Deptts 		Local
bodies 		Central
Govt
Deptts /
PSUs 		NGO /
Private
Nursing
Homes 		Total Total
Number
of
Beds 		Total
Number
of
Doctors 		Indoor
Patients 		Outdoor
Patients
Hospitals
 Rural
Hospitals
 Block
Primary
Health
Centres
 Primary
Health
Centres
Alipore Sadar - 3 3 7 1 3 - 48 65 1,159 199 33,498 633,233
Baruipur 1 6 1 18 - 2 - 66 94 1,045 201 48,114 1,266,244
Canning 1 3 1 6 - - - 15 26 351 49 22,467 666,377
Diamond Harbour 1 6 3 17 - - - 68 95 1077 169 65,051 1,325,535
Kakdwip 1 3 1 11 - - - 20 36 458 73 28,707 405,501
South 24 Parganas district 4 21 9 59 1 5 - 217 316 4,090 691 197,837 4,397,890

Note: The district data does not include data for portions of South 24 Parganas district functioning under Kolkata Municipal Corporation. The number of doctors exclude private bodies.

Medical facilities in Alipore Sadar subdivision are as follows:

Hospitals: (Name, location, beds)[29]

Rural Hospitals: (Name, CD block, location, beds) [30]

Block Primary Health Centres: (Name, CD block, location, beds)[31]

Primary Health Centres: (CD block-wise)(CD Block, PHC location, beds)[32]

There are primary health centres – Haridevpur (PO Paschim Putiary) (2) and Garfa (6)- located in Kolkata

Legislative Assembly Segments

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the Delimitation of constituencies in West Bengal, the areas under Bishnupur II CD Block along with seven gram panchayats under the Budge Budge II CD Block, viz. Burul, Chakmanik, Gaja Poyali, Kamrabad, Naskarpur, Rania and Satgachhia, will form the Satgachhia (Vidhan Sabha constituency). The other four gram panchayats under the Bishnupur II CD Block, the Budge Budge Municipality, the Pujali Municipality and the area under the Budge Budge I CD Block will together form the Budge Budge (Vidhan Sabha constituency). The gram panchayats of Asuti I, Asuti II, Chatta and Raspunja under the Thakurpukur Maheshtala CD Block and the areas under the Bishnupur I CD Block will together form the Bishnupur (Vidhan Sabha constituency). Wards 66, 67, 91, 92, 107, 108 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation will together form the Kasba (Vidhan Sabha constituency). Wards 96, 99, 101–106, 109, 110 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation will form the Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency). Wards 94, 95, 97, 98, 100, 111–114 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation will form the Tollyganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency). Wards 118, 119, 125–132 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation will form the Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency). The Behala Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) will cover the area under wards 115–117 and 120–124 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, and the gram panchayats of Joka I and Joka II under the Thakurpukur Maheshtala CD Block. Wards 8, 11–35 of the Maheshtala Municipality will form the Maheshtala (Vidhan Sabha constituency). Wards 1–7, 9, 10 of the Maheshtala Municipality and wards 136–141 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation will together form the Metiaburuz (Vidhan Sabha constituency). The Bishnupur legislative assembly constituency will be reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC) candidates. The legislative assembly constituencies of Satgachhia, Bishnupur, Maheshtala, Budge Budge and Metiaburuz will be legislative assembly segments of the Diamond Harbour (Lok Sabha constituency). The legislative assembly constituencies of Jadavpur and Tollyganj will be legislative assembly segments of the Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency). The legislative assembly constituencies of Kasba, Behala Paschim and Behala Purba will be legislative assembly segments of the Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency).[33]

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