The Superintendents of Police are officers of the. Archived from on 10 April 2009. The numerous start with Poush Mela at Santiniketan and follows through the Bengali month of till. The state is famous for its rich flora and fauna. The state of West Bengal was established in 1947 with 14 districts of erstwhile Bengal province of British India.
See also: The growth of literacy in the last decade of the twentieth century was particularly remarkable with special emphasis on the eradication of illiteracy. Later, some large districts were divided into smaller districts. Itikathai Cooch Behar A brief history of Cooch Behar. Itikathai Cooch Behar A brief history of Cooch Behar. A , better known as a Superintendent of Police, heads the District Police organisation of.
In addition to , the other most popular outdoor sports of this district are and and. Department of Panchayat and Rural Department, West Bengal. Five day continuous religious festival of Durga Puja is celebrated in West Bengal with great zeal. Six rivers that cut through the district are the , , , , , and. There are many places of interest in West Bengal; some of them have been listed here. Archived from on 29 March 2009. The , which connects with rest of the India, lies in the region of the state.
The icon links to further information about a selected place including its population structure gender, urbanization, population group, literacy a7+ , activity status a7+. Following this one day workshop, there will be opportunities for follow-up by coaches. Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Botanical Garden houses the world famous 250 year old 'The Great Banyan Tree' with more than 3600 aerial roots. The atomic unit is called a , which is the Panchayat organisation for a collection of villages. Particularly lively is the fair at. In between them, the river Ganga enters the state from west, before it branches off into its main distributaries: the Hooghly River, which flows southwards to reach the Bay of Bengal, and the , which flows eastwards into Bangladesh. Geographically, this area lies at the northeastern end of the , as it slopes down and merges with the alluvial plains of the.
Archived from on 10 April 2009. The of the , laid in 1862, passes through this district. National Institute of Rural Development. . A Police Circle consists of Police Stations, each headed by an Inspector of Police, or in case of rural areas, by a Sub-Inspector of Police.
Archived from on 22 December 2008. To placate him, Nara Narayan had to anoint Raghudev as a vassal chief of the portion of the kingdom east of the. Each district comprises of sub divisions with a magistrate for administration. Archived from on 19 July 2011. Location of West Bengal The state is surrounded by Sikkim and the country of Bhutan to its North, Assam and Bangladesh to the east and Bay of Bengal and Orissa state to the south and to the west is Jharkhand and Bihar.
Department of Panchayat and Rural Department, West Bengal. The largest Indian exclave was Balapara Khagrabari which surrounded a Bangladeshi exclave, Upanchowki Bhajni, which itself surrounded an Indian exclave called , of less than one hectare link to external map here. Bolpur, Nanoor, Labhpur, and Sainthia constituencies are part of , which will contain three other assembly segments from Bardhaman district. Blocks comprise of Panchayats and town municipalities. The has a three-tier structure in the state. The , formed in 1988, administers three out of four subdivisions of the Darjeeling district: , and.
Till the , the was part of Birbhum; the district thus sprawled up to in the west. Some of these are Ajay, Mor , Kopai, Shal, Bakreshwar, Brahmani, , Hinglo, Chapala, Bansloi, Pagla, Chandravaga etc. Tufanganj constituency is part of , which also contains six assembly segments from. The largest Indian exclave was Balapara Khagrabari which surrounded a Bangladeshi exclave, Upanchowki Bhajni, which itself surrounded an Indian exclave called , of less than one hectare link to external map here. The district has 127 libraries supported by the government, one private library and one district library. The famed Mustard Hilsa fish and Prawn curries are a gourmet delight in West Bengal.
The block-level organisations are called Panchayat Samiti, and the district-level organisations are named Zilla Parishad. The districts on the south of the Ganges—, , , , , , , , , , , , , and —constitute a variety of geographical regions such as the Rarh region, the Western plateau and high lands, the coastal plains, the Sunderbans and the Ganga Delta. Bangladeshi scientist who was also president of the , , was born in Birbhum district in 1900. Bengal became a commercial hub and the gateway to the eastern parts of the Indian subcontinent having the advantage of the shortest and easiest route from the Bay of Bengal to the Himalayas the famous Silk Route. Sidhu and Kanu are remembered in Birbhum as martyrs of this uprising. Ranjan Kumar, The Economic Life of a Bengal District: Birbhum 1770—1857, pp. Sometimes during the season when mahua trees bloom, wild from Jharkhand come in trampling crops and threatening life and property.
Bir in the means forests; therefore, Birbhum could also mean a land of forests. Archived from on 10 April 2009. Though most of the districts have more courts other than a District Court, not every subdivision of the state has a Court. Geographically, this area is divided into the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region, the Terai and Dooars region, and the North Bengal plains. Department of Panchayat and Rural Department, West Bengal. Official website of Uttar Dinajpur District.