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Hugli-Chuchura (pronounced [ɦuɡli-tʃutʃuɽa]), also known by its former names Chinsurah or Hooghly-Chinsurah, is a city of Hooghly district and the district headquarters of Hooghly division in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is one of the densely populated cities of West Bengal.
Hugli-Chuchura is the district headquarters. There are 23 police stations, 18 development blocks, 12 municipalities and 207 gram panchayats in this district. [3] [4] Other than municipality area, each subdivision contains community development blocks that are divided into rural areas and census towns.
Hooghly Chinsurah Municipality is the civic body that governs Hugli-Chuchura and its surrounding areas in ... Hugli District Hospital with 550 beds, Chunchura Police ...
District: Hooghly: Headquarters: Hugli-Chuchura: Area • Total. 1,148.15 km 2 (443.30 sq mi) ... Hugli District Hospital, Hooghly Chinsurah Municipality, 550 beds
Hoogly constituency, shares a large industrial area on the western bank of the Hooghly river in the district with Sreerampur and has a rich agricultural hinterland. According to The Statesman, "The Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency had remained a Communist bastion till the Trinamul snatched their thunder in the 2009 General Election. The ...
Hugli-Chinsurah is now the district town of the Hooghly district in modern West Bengal. Cossimbazar still has a Dutch cemetery. The Dutch cemetery in Karinga near Chhapra features a mausoleum for Jacob van Hoorn, who died in 1712. [8] The Dutch church of Chinsurah was demolished in 1988 by the West Bengal Public Works Department. [9]
Hooghly Jail. This is one of the oldest prison center of West Bengal since East India Company rule.The jail was founded in 1817 beside the Hooghly river.Primarily the jail building was a private doweling house of a native Indian and the ration system of the jail was introduced in 1836. [2]
Hugli-Chuchura, also known as Hooghly-Chinsurah or Chinsurah, is a city and the district headquarter of Hooghly division in the Indian state of West Bengal.