Alipore Sadar subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Subdivisions
South 24 Parganas district is divided into five administrative subdivisions:
18.26% of the total population of South 24 Parganas district live in Alipore Sadar subdivision.
Administrative units
Alipore Sadar subdivision has 5 police stations, 5 community development blocks, 5 panchayat samitis, 45 gram panchayats, 268 mouzas, 243 inhabited villages, 3 municipalities and 36 census towns. The municipalities are at Budge Budge, Maheshtala 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.
Kolkata Urban Agglomeration
The following Municipalities and census towns in South 24 Parganas district were part of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration in the 2011 census: Maheshtala (M), Joka (CT), Balarampur (CT), Chata Kalikapur (CT), Budge Budge (M), Nischintapur (CT), Uttar Raypur (CT), Pujali (M) and Rajpur Sonarpur (M).
Police stations
Police stations in Alipore Sadar subdivision have the following features and jurisdiction:
Blocks
Community development blocks in Alipore Sadar subdivision are:
Gram panchayats
The subdivision contains 43 gram panchayats under 5 community development blocks:
Bishnupur I CD block consists of 11 gram panchayats: Amgachhia, Dakshin Gauripur Chakdhir, Kulerdari, Raskhali, Andhar Manik, Panakua, Bhandaria Kastekumari, Julpia, Paschim Bishnupur, Keoradanga and Purba Bishnupur. Bishnupur II CD block consists of 11 gram panchayats: Bakhrahat, Kanganbaria, Patharberia Jaychandipur, Chak Enayetnagar, Khagramuri, Chandi, Maukhali, Ramkrishnapur Borhanpur, Gobindapur Kalicharanpur, Nahazari and Panchanan. Budge Budge I CD block consists of six gram panchayats: Buita, Mayapur, Rajibpur, Chingripota, Nischintapur and Uttar Raypur. Budge Budge II CD block consists of 11 gram panchayats: Burul, Gaja Poyali, Naskarpur, Satgachhia, Chakmanik, Kamrabad, North Baoyali, South Baoyali, Dongaria Raipur, Kasipur Alampur and Rania. Thakurpukur Maheshtala CD Block consists of six gram panchayats: Joka I,Joka II, Asuti I, Asuti II, Chatta and Raspunja.
Industry
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. Bata India opened its first shoe factory in 1934 at Batanagar.Budge Budge Thermal Power Station of CESC Limited has a generating capacity of 750 MW.
“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.
Education
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%
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: