Taraknagar

Tek Dhakal Raja Dhakal Rahoul
city
Nickname(s): King
Coordinates: 23°22′47″N 88°40′47″E / 23.37972°N 88.67972°E / 23.37972; 88.67972Coordinates: 23°22′47″N 88°40′47″E / 23.37972°N 88.67972°E / 23.37972; 88.67972
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Nadia
Languages
• Official	Bengali, English
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN	741502
Telephone code	03473
Vehicle registration	WB-52
Coastline	0 kilometres (0 mi)
Nearest city	Bagula
Sex ratio	1.07 ♂/♀
Lok Sabha constituency	Ranaghat

Taraknagar (তারকনগর) is a village of Nadia district, West Bengal, India situated 99 km north of Kolkata. It is also a station on the Kolkata Suburban Railway. Several local trains come from Sealdah every day.

Location

Taraknagar is 99 km north of Kolkata (Calcutta) at 23°23′N 88°41′E / 23.38°N 88.68°E / 23.38; 88.68.

Education

Taraknagar has two high schools: "Taraknagar Ma Maharani High School" and "Taraknagar Jamuna Sundari High School." More than three primary schools are available there including one kindergarten.

In Taraknagar Main there is one high school and one primary school. Taraknagar Ma Maharani High School has been upgraded to an H.S.(12 class) high school from the session 2013-14 with optional subjects Geography, Environment studies, philosophy, History, Education & Sanskrit. 91 students appeared at the annual exam of class-XI held in March 2014.

Politics

Taraknagar is a small village where one can find only one panchayat,a local governing system in villages across India, namely Shibniwas Gram Panchayat.

TMC is the ruling party here in this region, which won the previously held elections with a majority of 12-1.

Administration

Krishnanagar is the district headquarters for Shibniwas Gram Panchayat.

[Sadar (Krishnagar) ] is a sub-division, where the SDO is administrative head of the region.^[1][2]

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