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The Sonagachi project is a sex workers' cooperative that operates in the area and empowers sex workers to insist on condom use and to stand up against abuse. Run by the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee , it was founded by public health scientist Smarajit Jana in 1992 but is now largely run by the prostitutes themselves.
The Durbar runs the STD/HIV Intervention Programme (commonly known as the Sonagachi Project) since 1999.The ownership and management of the Sonagachi Project was taken over by DMSC from the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, a central government public health training and research institute based in Kolkata, which had initiated the programme in 1992. [9]
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation is divided into 144 administrative wards that are grouped into 16 boroughs. [1]Each of these wards elects a councillor to the KMC. Each borough has a committee consisting of the councillors elected from the respective wards of the boroughs.
2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Shyampukur; Party Candidate Votes % ±% AITC: Dr. Shashi Panja: 53,507 45.80 −12.17 AIFB: Piyali Pal 40,352 34.54
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids is a 2004 Indian-American documentary film about the children of sex workers in Sonagachi, Kolkata's red light district.The widely acclaimed film, written and directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, won a string of accolades including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2005.
Kolkata is the second most literate district in West Bengal. [10] The literacy rate of Kolkata district has increased from 53.0% in 1951 to 86.3% in the 2011 census. [11] See also – List of West Bengal districts ranked by literacy rate
The largest red-light district in Kolkata, is Sonagachi, it is also the largest red-light district in India. [21] The area came to be known as Sona Gachi from a Sufi saint Sona Ghazi whose tomb (mazaar) is located in the locality. [22] It is an area with several hundred multi-storey brothels, and around 10,000 sex workers. [23]
Khelat Chandra Ghosh (1829-1878), grandson of Hasting’s banyan (clerk) Ramlochan Ghosh, moved out of the old family house at 46 Pathuriaghata Street to a new house at 47 Pathuriaghata Street. The family made a substantial contribution in music and charity. There is a lane named after him in Ward No. 24 (not shown in the map alongside).