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: braahngr), meaning "City of the Hogs". (braah: hog, ngr: 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".