Baranagar

**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)

### 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".

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Baranagar
- **other name**: Baranagore
- **etymology**: ("city of hogs")
- **settlement type**: City
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision type1**: States and territories of India, State
- **subdivision name1**: West Bengal
- **subdivision type2**: List of districts of West Bengal, District
- **subdivision name2**: North 24 Parganas district, North 24 Parganas
- **subdivision type3**: Region
- **subdivision name3**: Kolkata metropolitan area, Greater Kolkata
- **subdivision type4**: Kolkata Metro, Metro Station
- **subdivision name4**: Noapara metro station, Noapara and Baranagar metro station, Baranagar(under construction)
- **established title**: Established
- **government type**: Municipal Corporations in India, Municipality
- **governing body**: Baranagar Municipality
- **leader title1**: Municipality Chairman
- **leader name1**: Aparna Moulik
- **leader title2**: MLA
- **leader name2**: Tapas Roy
- **unit pref**: Metric
- **area total km2**: 7.12
- **elevation m**: 12
- **population total**: 2,45,313
- **population as of**: 2011
- **population rank**: 19th
187th
- **population density km2**: auto
- **demographics type1**: Languages
- **demographics1 title1**: Official
- **demographics1 info1**: Bengali language, Bengali, English language, English
- **timezone1**: Indian Standard Time, IST
- **utc offset1**: +5:30
- **postal code type**: Postal Index Number, PIN
- **postal code**: 700035, 700036, 700090, 700108
- **area code**: +91 33
- **area code type**: Telephone code
- **registration plate**: WB-23, WB-24, WB-25, WB-26
- **blank1 name sec1**: Lok Sabha constituency
- **blank1 info sec1**: Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency), Dum Dum
- **blank2 name sec1**: Vidhan Sabha constituency
- **blank2 info sec1**: Baranagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Baranagar