Birnagar

Birnagar is a Municipality Town under Ranaghat subdivision in the district of Nadia, West Bengal. The Birnagar town is separated into 14 wards for which decisions are held at regular intervals. The Birnagar Municipality has populace of 30,799 of which 15,658 are guys while 15,141 are females according to report discharged. Birnagar Municipality has add up to organization more than 6,702 houses to which it supplies fundamental comforts like water and sewerage.

It is likewise approved to assemble streets inside Municipality restrains and force charges on properties going under its ward. It is arranged 81 kilometers north of Kolkata. It is one of the most seasoned railroad station in the Sealdah - Murshidabad rail route area. Birnagar was an island in the Hoogly waterway that changed its course away of the then ULA around 1707 A.D. Prior to British colonization, Birnagar was called Ula or Ulo.

The "Ula" name is as yet present in the names of some neighborhood establishments, for example, the library and healing facility. It is said in the short story Post Master by Rabindranath Tagore. Birnagar Municipality is around 150 years of age. The principal director of the Birnagar Municipality was Kabi Nabinchandra Sen. It prior had two zamindars. One a player in Birnagar had a place with the Mukherjees, and the other part had a place with the Mustafis.