Alipore Sadar subdivision

Alipore Sadar subdivision is the most urbanized part of the South 24 Parganas district. 59.85% of the population lives in the urban areas and 40.15% lives in the rural areas. The entire district is situated in the Ganges Delta and the subdivision, on the east bank of the Hooghly River, is an alluvial stretch, with industrial development.^[3][4][5]

South 24 Parganas district is divided into five administrative subdivisions:^[6]

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

Alipore Sadar subdivision has 5 police stations, 5 community development blocks, 5 panchayat samitis, 43 gram panchayats, 268 mouzas, 243 inhabited villages, 3 municipalities and 36 census towns. The municipalities are at Maheshtala, Budge Budge 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.^[6][7][8][9]

Police stations in Alipore Sadar subdivision have the following features and jurisdiction:^[6][11]

Community development blocks in Alipore Sadar subdivision are:^[6][12][13]

The subdivision contains 43 gram panchayats under 5 community development blocks:^[14][15]

• Thakurpukur Maheshtala CD Block consists of four gram panchayats: Asuti-I, Asuti-II, Chatta and Rasapunja.
• Budge Budge I CD block consists of six gram panchayats: Buta, Chingripota, Mayapur, Nischintapur, Rajibpur and Uttar Raipur.
• Budge Budge II CD block consists of 11 gram panchayats: Burul, Chakmanik, Dongaria Raipur, Gaja Poyali, Kamrabad, Kasipur Alampur, Naskarpur, North Bawali, Rania, Satgachhia and South Bawali.
• Bishnupur I CD block consists of 11 gram panchayats: Amgachhia, Andhar Manik, Bhandaria Kastekumari, Dakshin Gauripur Chakdhir, Julpia, Keoradanga, Kulerdari, Panakua, Paschim Bishnupur, Purba Bishnupur and Raskhali.
• Bishnupur II CD block consists of 11 gram panchayats: Bakhrahat, Chak Enayetnagar, Chandi, Gobindapur Kalicharanpur, Kanganberia, Khagramuri, Maukhali, Nahajari, Panchanan, Patharberia Jaychandipur and Ramkrishnapur Borhanpur.

An overview of the municipal towns and cities in Alipore Sadar subdivision is given below:^[6][12]

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.^{[16][17][18][19][20]} Bata India opened its first shoe factory in 1934 at Batanagar.^[21]Budge Budge Thermal Power Station of CESC Limited has a generating capacity of 750 MW.^[22]

“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.^[23]

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%^[24]

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:^[24]

.* 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:

• Budge Budge College was established at Budge Budge in 1971.^[25]
• Budge Budge Institute of Technology was established at Nischintapur, Budge Budge in 2009. It offers, diploma, degree and post graduate courses.^[26][27]
• Maheshtala College was established at Maheshtala in 1971.^[28]
• Saheed Anurup Chandra Mahavidyalaya was established at Burul in 1991.^[29]
• Asutosh College Second Campus at Bhasa.
• Vidyanagar College was established at Vidyanagar in 1963.^[30]

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.^[31]

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)^[32]

• M. R. Bangur Hospital, Tollygunge, Kolkata, 620 beds
• Vidyasagar State General Hospital, Behala, Kolkata, 256 beds
• Baghajatin State General Hospital, Baghajatin, Kolkata, 100 beds
• Bijoygarh State General Hospital, Bijoygarh, Kolkata, 100 beds
• Garden Reach State General Hospital, Garden Reach, Kolkata, 68 beds
• A.T.Dhar Memorial Hospital, Budge Budge, 28 beds
• Budge Budge Municipal Hospital, Budge Budge, 28 beds
• Budge Budge ESI Hospital, Budge Budge, 300 beds
• Barisha Hospital, Barisha, Kolkata, KMC, 20 beds
• ESI Hospital and Occupational Health Centre, Joka, 143 beds

Rural Hospitals: (Name, CD block, location, beds) ^[33]

• Amtala Rural Hospital, Bishnupur II CD block, Amtala, 50 beds
• Lakshmibala Dutta Rural Hospital, Budge Budge II CD block, PO Bakrahat, 30 beds
• Benjanhari Acharial Rural Hospital, Budge Budge I CD block, PO Buita, 30 beds

Block Primary Health Centres: (Name, CD block, location, beds)^[34]

• Chandidaulatabad Block Primary Health Centre, Bishnupur I CD block, PO Nepalganj, 10 beds
• Samali Block Primary Health Centre, Bishnupur II CD Block, Samali, PO Nahazari, 10 beds
• Sarsuna Block Primary Health Centre, Thakurpukur Mahestala CD block, Sarsuna, 15 beds

Primary Health Centres: (CD block-wise)(CD Block, PHC location, beds)^[35]

• Bishnupur I CD block: Julpia (PO Andharmanik) (6), Amgachhia (PO Nepalganj) (10)
• Bishnupur II CD block: Moukhali (PO Charshyamdas) (6)
• Budge Budge I CD block: Biraj Lakshmi (PO Pujali) (6), Jamalpur (6)
• Budge Budge II CD block: Burul (6), Gojapoali (PO Poali)(6)

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

Lok Sabha (parliamentary) and Vidhan Sabha (state assembly) constituencies in Alipore Sadar subdivision were as follows:^[36]