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. Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School is one of the oldest and renowned schools in Baranagar and North 24 Parganas.

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

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.

Famous residents 
 Ramakrishna
 Sitaramdas Omkarnath
 Sarada Devi
 Swami Vivekananda
 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
 Abhishek Chatterjee
 Shaan
 Dola Banerjee
 Rahul Banerjee
 Sagarika
 Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri
 C. A. Murthy
 Sabitri Chatterjee
 Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
 Atanu Das
 Sanjib Chattopadhyay (Famous Bengali writer)
 Prabhabati Dutt
 Rajib Bhattacharya (Everest summiter)

Education

University

Baranagar houses the headquarters of the Indian Statistical Institute. 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.

Colleges
Colleges of Baranagar are:
 Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College
 Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Mahavidyalaya

Schools

Baranagar is also home to many schools providing quality education to the local and neighbourhood people.
 Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School (Senior secondary boys' school)
 Ramakrishna Mission Centenary Primary School, Baranagaore (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
 Disha Eye Hospital, Sinthi
 National Institute for Locomotor Disability (NILD)
 Baine Hospital
 Baranagar Matri Sadan
 Indian Institute of Psycometry (IIP)

Sports
Olympic played archer Dola Banerjee, Rahul Banerjee, Atanu Das born in Baranagar.

Many sport academies and sporting clubs are in Baranagar:
 Nobodoy Football Academy
 Seishinkai Indian Karate Do & Kick Boxing Institute
 Bandhudal Sporting Club
 Calcutta Archery Club
 Baranagar Archery Club
 Baranagar Sporting Club

Tourist attractions

Several educational institutions, religious places, pilgrims, places of Baranagar are tourist attractions:
 Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School
 Indian Statistical Institute
 Baranagar Math
 Alambazar Math
 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".

References

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Cities in India