Hasnabad

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native_name = Hasnabad | type = city | latd =22.59 | longd = 88.92
locator_position = right | state_name = West Bengal
district = North 24 Parganas
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Hasnabad ( _bn. হাসনাবাদ) is a town with a police station, community development block and an assembly constituency in Basirhat subdivision of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located near the border with Bangladesh.

Demographics

In 2001 census, Hasnabad community development block had a population of 177,470. Out of this total 91,122 were males and 86,348 were females. The entire population is identified as rural. [cite web | url = http://www.wbcensus.gov.in/DataTables/02/Table4_11.htm
title = Census of India 2001| accessdate = 2007-08-24 | last = | first = | work = Provisional Population Totals, West Bengal, Table 4| publisher = Census Commission of India ]

Transport

Hasnabad is 75 km from Sealdah and the electrified train line is via Barasat. It is part of the Kolkata Suburban Railway. The Barasat – Hasnabad light railway was converted to a broad gauge section subsequently. [Chaudhuri, Sukanta, "The Railway Comes to Calcutta", in "Calcutta, the Living City", Vol. I, edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, p. 239, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-563696-3.]

There is a privately operated express bus (No. 252) from Esplanade to Hasnabad, travelling via Belgachia, Patipukur, Jessore Road, Nager Bazar, Barasat, Kadambagachi, Golabari, Beleghata, Berachampa, Kholapota, and Basirhat. [cite web | url = http://www.kolkataweb.com/bus.php?p=4&srchtxt= | title = Travel - Transport| accessdate = 2007-08-24 | last = | first = | work = Kolkata Bus Routes| publisher = calcuttaweb ] Bus no. 79C travels from Shyambazar to Hasnabad. [cite web | url = http://www.calcuttahotel.net/calcutta-bus-routes.htm
title = Calcutta Travel Portal| accessdate = 2007-08-24 | last = | first = | work = 4| publisher = Avenue Corporate Services Pvt. Ltd., 29/B B.K. Paul Avenue, Kolkata - 700 005.]

Politics

Goutam Deb of CPI(M) won the Hasnabad seat defeating Rafiqul Islam Mondal of AITC in 2006 and 2001, and of INC in 1996, Anath Bandhu Mitra of INC in 1991 and Ananta Roy of INC in 1987. Amiya Bhusan Banerjee of CPI (M) defeated Sekendar Kayal of MUL in 1982 and Mollah Tasmatullah in 1977. [cite web | url = http://eci.gov.in/electionanalysis/AE/S25/partycomp96.htm
title = Partywise comparison since 1977| accessdate = 2007-08-24 | last = | first = | work = 96 – Hasnabad Assembly Constitiuency| publisher = Election Commission of India ]

Hasnabad is part of Basirhat (Lok Sabha constituency). [cite web
url = http://archive.eci.gov.in/se2001/background/S25/WB_Dist_PC_AC.pdf
title = Assembly Constituencies - Corresponding Districts and Parliamentary Constituencies
accessdate = 2008-10-01
work = West Bengal
publisher = Election Commission of India ]

Law and order

Hasnabad being a border area, constantly faces law and order problems. In July 2007, a gang of about 30 dacoits looted four jewellry shops after tying up the policemen inside a camp posted at Bandarkhalibazar under Hasnabad police station. [cite web | url = http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=22&id=190635&usrsess=1
title = Gang of 30 goes on rampage | accessdate = 2007-08-24 | last = | first = | work = Kolkata Plus| publisher = "The Statesman", 19 July 2007] [cite web | url = http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=10&id=191107&usrsess=1
title = Police fail to track down robbers| accessdate = 2007-08-24 | last = | first = | work = North Bengal & Sikkim| publisher = "The Statesman", 24 July 2007 ]

In April 2007, a fisherman was killed and 22 persons including few women were injured after miscreants, hurled bombs and fired bullets on a group of people at Maheshpur village near Hasnabad. The incident was said to be an outcome of intense rivalry between two CPI-M fractions over possession of a fishery at Sajnetala near Hasnabad. [cite web | url = http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=23&id=179928&usrsess=1
title = One killed, 22 injured in Hasnabad| accessdate = 2007-08-24 | last = | first = | work = Bengal Plus| publisher = "The Statesman", 7 April 2007] In July 2005, a cloth-trader was shot dead in a compartment of a Barasat-Hasnabad local train. [cite web | url = http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=22&id=112886&usrsess=1
title = Rumpus follows murder on train| accessdate = 2007-08-24 | last = | first = | work = Kolkata Plus| publisher = "The Statesman", 30 July 2005] In October 2004, an irate mob damaged a police van and went on the rampage, damaging a Border Security Force (BSF) camp near Hasnabad. The incident took place in the Sayedpur area of Hasnabad when a truck-load of villagers from Taki were going to join a religious function near the India-Bangladesh border. [cite web | url = http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=22&id=84288&usrsess=1
title = Mob on rampage near border, constable held| accessdate = 2007-08-24 | last = | first = | work = Kolkata Plus| publisher = "The Statesman", 302 October 2002]

Healthcare

North 24 Parganas district has been identified as one of the areas where ground water is affected by arsenic contamination. [cite web | url = http://www.soesju.org/arsenic/wb2.htm
title = Groundwater Arsenic contamination in West Bengal-India (19 years study ) | accessdate = 2007-08-24 | last = | first = | work = Groundwater arsenic contamination status of North 24-Parganas district, one of the nine arsenic affected districts of West Bengal-India | publisher = SOES]

References

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