Rishra Municipality is the civic body that governs

Rishra Rishra is a city and a municipality in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). History The origin of Rishra situate ...

and its surrounding areas in

Srirampore subdivision Srirampore subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the Hooghly district in the state of West Bengal, India. Overview Srirampore subdivision is the most urbanised, and the one with the highest density of population, of all the subdivisio ...

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History

Rishra municipality was established in 1944. The earliest mention of Rishra is found in

Bipradas Pipilai Bipradas Pipilai was a 15th-century poet. He was the son of Mukunda Pipilai, the family hailed from Baduria-Batagram in 24 Parganas, now in the Indian state of West Bengal. Sengupta, Subodh Chandra and Bose, Anjali (editors), 1976/1998, ''Sansa ...

’s ''Manasa Mangal Kavya'' in the fifteenth century. Rishra grew as a place of habitation of cotton and silk weavers, farmers and fishermen. Rishra and

Konnagar Konnagar is a town and a municipality of Hooghly district in the state of West Bengal in India. Konnagar has a railway station that connect with Howrah. It is under Uttarpara police station in Serampore subdivision. It is a part of the area co ...

were initially included in

Serampore Municipality Serampore Municipality is the civic body that governs Serampore and its surrounding areas ( Mahesh, Tin Bazar, Battala and partly Chatra) in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district, West Bengal, India. History Serampore is the first town i ...

Geography

Rishra Municipality covers an area of 6.48 sq km and has a total population of 122,000 (2011). In 1981, 31.93% of the total population formed main workers and 68.07% were non-workers in Rishra Municipality and 75.22% of the total main workers were industrial workers. This may be interpreted as follows: although industrial activities are prominent in the municipal areas of the region, the major portion of the population is

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and migrants find employment in the area.

Healthcare

Rishra Municipal Seva Sadan (closed), with 150 beds, is located in the Rishra Municipality area.

Elections

In the 2015 municipal elections for Rishra Municipality

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won 19 seats,

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1 seat,

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1 seat and Independents 2 seats. In the 2010 municipal elections for Rishra Municipality

won 9 seats,

won 8 seats,

CPI (M) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxist–Leninist communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in terms of membership and electoral seats and one of the nat ...

4 seats,

1 seat and Independent 1 seat. About the 2010 municipal elections,

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wrote, "Today's municipal elections are unlike any for decades: the Communists, who have held West Bengal's main towns almost without a break since the 1970s, are facing disaster… This time defeat is likely to be definitive and could signal the beginning of the end for the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPIM)." In the 2005 municipal elections for Rishra Municipality,

won 5 seats,

3 seats,

8 seats,

1 seat and others 6 seats.

References

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