Balagarh

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  ?Balagarh
West Bengal • India
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Location of Balagarh
Coordinates: 23°15′N 88°26′E / 23.25, 88.43
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
District(s) Hooghly
Population 127,466 (2001)
Codes
• Pincode
• Telephone
• 712501
• +91 3213
CD Block

Coordinates: 23°15′N 88°26′E / 23.25, 88.43

Balagarh (Bengali: বলাগড়) is a town, a police station and a community development block in Chinsurah subdivision.[1] of Hooghly District in West Bengal, India.

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[edit] Demographics

Balagarh community development block had a population of 127,466 in 2001. Out of this 72,451 were males and 55,015 were females.[2]

[edit] Economy

Balagarh was selected the site for power station by Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation but the project was shelved.[3]

[edit] Culture

[edit] Guptipara

Guptipara is a village under Balagarh police station.

The first publicly organised Durga Puja was held at Guptipara, when some men were stopped from taking part in a household Durga Puja. Twelve of them formed a committee and organised a barowari (baro means twelve and yar means friend) puja (worshipping). There is a difference of opinion about the year of worship – 1761 or 1790.[4][5]

There are some old temples in the village - Brindabanchandra Temple, Chaitanyadev Temple, Krishna Chandra Temple and Ramachandra Temple.[6]

[edit] Politics

The Balagarh seat fell vacant because of the death of the sitting MLA, Dibakanta Routh. In 2007 by-elections, Bhuban Pramanick of CPI(M) polled 60,101 votes to win the seat. Ashim Majhi of Trinamool Congress secured 51,691 votes. Bangshi Raut of the BJP got 8,833 votes leaving Congress nominee Biswanath Malik in the fourth place with 5,864 votes. Gautam Mandal of the CPI(ML) managed 4530 votes.[7]

Dibakanta Routh of CPI (M) won the Balagarh (SC) assembly seat in 2006, 2001 and 1996, defeating his nearest rivals, Asim Patra of AITC, Lakshmi Parui of AITC and Biswanath Malik of INC, in the respective years. Abinash Pramanik of CPI (M) won the seat in 1991, 1987, 1982 and 1977 defeating his nearest rivals Biswanath Malik, Gopal Krishna Dhar, Nilmoni Mandal and Gauranga Halder, all of INC, in the respective years.[8]

Balagarh is part of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency).[9]

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ District-wise list of statutory towns
  2. ^ Hooghly District Administration
  3. ^ The Hindu Business Line 22 April 2004
  4. ^ Calcutta Web
  5. ^ Festivals – Durga Puja
  6. ^ India 9. com
  7. ^ CPI(M) retains Balagarh assembly seat. The Hindu News Update Service, 2 January 2008. Retrieved on 2008-01-02.
  8. ^ Election Commission Assembly election results 1977-2006. Click on Party-wise Performance of Political Parties for details.
  9. ^ General election to the Legislative Assembly, 2001 – List of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies. West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 2007-02-21.

[edit] See also