Uttarpara Kotrung Municipality is the civic body that governs Uttarpara Kotrung and its surrounding areas (Bhadrakali and Hind Motor) in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district, West Bengal, India. It is the oldest municipality in the state of West Bengal.
History Uttarpara Municipality was founded on 14 April 1853 after the second appeal by zamindar Joykrishna and others for a municipality to the Government of Bengal, the first appeal made by them in 1851 was rejected. Uttarpara was only the second town in Bengal to voluntarily adopt the Municipal Act of 1850 Sec XX16 – Serampore was the first town to adopt it. However, while in Serampore European residents pushed the issue through, in Uttarpara it was the zamindar Joy Krishna Mukherjee who played the pivotal role and made Uttarpara Municipality the first in the state by establishing it in 1853, 12 years before Serampore Municipality and 23 years before Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Kotrung was merged with Uttarapara Municipality in 1964 and it was renamed Uttarpara Kotrung Municipality. Makhla was merged with Uttarpara Kotrung Municipality in 1991.
Geography
The boundaries of Uttarpara Kotrung Municipality are as follows: Konnagar Municipality to the north, Hooghly River to the east and Bally Khal to the south. Earlier the railway track was the western limit, but subsequently areas such as Makhla and Hindmotor have been added beyond the railway track.
Uttarpara Kotrung Municipality covers an area of 11.75 sq km and has a population of 159,413 (2011).
In 1981, 27.47% of the total population formed main workers and 72.53% were non-workers in Uttarpara Kotrung Municipality and 37.98% of the total main workers were industrial workers. This may be interpreted as follows: although industrial activities are prominent in the municipal areas of the region, the major portion of the population is commuters and migrants find employment in the area.
Healthcare Uttarpara General Hospital, with 204 beds, Female Vagrants Home and primary health centre with 5 beds at Bhadrakali are located in the Uttarpara Kotrung Municipality area.
Elections In the 2015 municipal elections for Uttarpara Kotrung municipality Trinamool Congress won 15 seats, CPI(M) 4 seats, Congress 2 seats and Independents 3 seats.
In the 2010 municipal elections for Uttarpara Kotrung Municipality Trinamool Congress won 22 seats, CPI (M) 1 seat and Independent 1 seat.
Wards Details of the wards, with 2022 municipal election results, are as follows: Ward No Neighbourhood1Total ElectorsSeat TypeCouncillorParty 1 Kotrung 3,883GeneralPartha MazumderTrinamool Congress 2 Kotrung 6,217GeneralSandip Kumar DasTrinamool Congress 3 Kotrung 5,651WomanArati BiswasCPI (M) 4 Kotrung 5,563GeneralPrabir Kangsabanik (Sanu)CPI (M) 5 Kotrung 4,037GeneralPinaki DhamaliIndependent 6 Kotrung 5,182WomanPutul Rani GhoshTrinamool Congress 7 Kotrung/Bhadrakali 12,019GeneralAjay SinghTrinamool Congress 8 Bhadrakali 4,305GeneralTapash Mukherjee (Buro)Trinamool Congress 9 Bhadrakali 5,275WomanMitali BejTrinamool Congress 10 Bhadrakali 7,056Woman SCSarathi GolderTrinamool Congress 11 Bhadrakali 5,170GeneralAmitava MukherjeeTrinamool Congress 12 Bhadrakali 4,228GeneralDilip YadavTrinamool Congress 13 Bhadrakali 5,310WomanMousumi BiswasTrinamool Congress 14 Uttarpara 4,358GeneralUtpaladitya Banerjee (Pintu)Trinamool Congress 15 Uttarpara 5,339WomanSusmita Sarkar (Boni)CPI (M) 16 Uttarpara 4,173WomanDolly Ghosh YadavTrinamool Congress 17 Uttarpara 5,782GeneralSubrata MukherjeeTrinamool Congress 18 Uttarpara 3,850GeneralSumit Chakraborty (Tukai)Trinamool Congress 19 Uttarpara 5,767WomanAditi KunduTrinamool Congress 20 Makhla 5,682GeneralIndrajit Ghosh (Paba)Trinamool Congress 21 Makhla 8,858GeneralKhokan MandalTrinamool Congress 22 Makhla 7,475WomanManashi SinghaTrinamool Congress 23 Makhla 7,230GeneralArnab Roy(Raja)Trinamool Congress 24 Hindmotor 1,369GeneralKamakhaya Narayan SinghCongress This is a broad indication of the neighbourhood covered, not a full description.
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