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Country
  
India

District
  
South 24 Parganas

PIN
  
700148

State
  
West Bengal

Time zone
  
IST (UTC+5:30)

Website
  
s24pgs.gov.in

Harinavi

Harinavi is a town and a municipality under Sonarpur police station of Baruipur subdivision in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. While they form a common municipality both the places are also identified individually.

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Harinavi


Geography

Harinavi is located at 22.26°N 88.25°E / 22.26; 88.25.

Demographics

As of 2001 India census, Harinavi is situated in Rajpur Sonarpur Municipality have area and population of 55.30 km2. and 336,707 respectively. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Harinavi has an average literacy rate of 78%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 83%, and female literacy is 73%. In Harinavi, 9% of the population is under 6 years of age.

With the partition of India there was a massive influx of refugees from East Pakistan into Kolkata and its peripheral areas. Of over a million refugees who entered West Bengal in 1950 alone settled mostly in squatter colonies between Naihati and Harinavi on the east bank of the Hooghly and between Mogra and Uluberia on the west bank.

Education

There are two major schools in the locality, one is a boy school called Harinavi DVAS High School and the other one is a girl school called Subhashini Balika Vidyalaya.

Politics

In the 2006 elections to the state assembly Shyamal Naskar of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) won the Sonarpur assembly seat reserved for scheduled castes defeating his nearest rival Nirmal Chandra Mandal of All India Trinamool Congress (AITC). In 2001, Nirmal Chandra Mandal of AITC defeated Abha Mandal of CPI(M). Bhadreswar Mondal of CPI(M) defeated Nirmal Mandal of Indian National Congress (INC) in 1996 and 1991, and Sovaranjan Sardar of INC in 1986. Gangadhar Naskar of CPI(M) defeated Ramkanta Mandal of ICS in 1982 and Gourhari Sardar of INC in 1977.

Harinavi is part of Calcutta South (Lok Sabha constituency)

References

Harinavi Wikipedia