South 24 Parganas (Pron:pɔrɡɔnɔs;abbr. 24 PGS (S)),or sometimes South Twenty Four Parganas and Dakshin 24 Parganas,is a district in the Indian state of West Bengal,headquartered in Alipore. It is the largest district of West Bengal by area and second largest by population. It is the sixth most populous district in India (out of 640). On one side of the district there is the urban fringe of Kolkata,and on the other the remote riverine villages in the Sundarbans.
The Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) or SUCI(C),previously called the Socialist Unity Centre of India and "Socialist Unity Centre",is an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist communist party in India. The party was founded by Shibdas Ghosh,Nihar Mukherjee and others in 1948.
Sanat Kumar Mandal ( is an Indian politician and a leader of the Revolutionary Socialist Party political party. He was elected to 7th Lok Sabha in 1980 from Jaynagar constituency of West Bengal. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1984,1989,1991,1996,1998,1999 and 2004 from the same constituency.
Ram Chandra Dome is an Indian politician and a Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). A doctor by profession,he was elected to the Lok Sabha for seven consecutive terms. He is the first member from the scheduled castes to be inducted in the politburo. He has also been serving as the national general secretary of Dalit Shoshan Mukti Mancha,CPI(M)'s frontal organisation for backward castes,since 2018.
Nadanghat is a village,with a police station,in the Purbasthali I CD block in Kalna subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district in West Bengal,India.
Katwa Lok Sabha constituency was one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centred on Katwa in West Bengal,which was abolished following the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies in 2008.
Ajit Kumar Panja was a Union minister of state in the Government of India. He was a member of Indian National Congress party but left it to join Trinamool Congress. He was born in Calcutta,and studied law at the Scottish Church College,Calcutta and at the Lincoln's Inn. His Native village was a small village in Burdwan district,named Majigram. A lawyer by profession,he authored many books. He was also a stage actor who enacted the role of Ramakrishna Paramahansa in Kolkata.
Jaynagar is one of the 543 Parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Jaynagar Majilpur in West Bengal. All the seven legislative assembly segments of No. 19 Jaynagar Lok Sabha constituency are in South 24 Parganas district. The seat is reserved for Scheduled Castes.
Kultali is a village within the jurisdiction of the Kultali police station in the Kultali CD block in the Baruipur subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Socialism in India is a political movement founded early in the 20th century,as a part of the broader movement to gain Indian independence from colonial rule. The movement grew quickly in popularity as it espoused the causes of India's farmers and labourers against the zamindars,the princely class and the landed gentry. After independence and until the early 1990s,socialism shaped some economic and social policies of the Indian government,although they mostly followed the principles of dirigisme. After this period,India moved towards a more market-based economy.
Baruipur subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Diamond Harbour subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Canning subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar is an Indian physician and politician from West Bengal. She is Chairperson of Banga Janani Bahini,a women's wing of All India Trinamool Congress. She is a member of 15th,16th and 17th Lok Sabha,re-elected in 2014 Indian general election and 2019.
Jaynagar I is a community development block that forms an administrative division in the Baruipur subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Jaynagar II is a community development block that forms an administrative division in the Baruipur subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Healthcare in West Bengal features a universal health care system run by the state and the federal governments. The Constitution of India charges every state with "raising of the level of nutrition and the standard of living of its people and the improvement of public health as among its primary duties". Ministry of Health &Family Welfare of the Government of West Bengal is responsible for administering and funding the public hospital system in the state. The entire state population is covered by a health insurance,either provided by their employer or the Employees’State Insurance. Other categories of people are covered under the state’s public health insurance scheme. As of 2021,the total public healthcare budget of the state is ₹16,368 crore (US$2.0 billion),out of which ₹10,922 crore (US$1.4 billion) was earmarked for public hospitals,₹2,000 crore (US$250 million) was to be spent on the public health insurance program and ₹5,246 crore (US$660 million) is to be spent on primary health services. An additional ₹1,000 crore (US$130 million),outside the official health budget,was to be spent on health insurance coverage for the current and retired employees of the state government. Healthcare forms roughly 4.5% of the state's entire budget which critics say should be increased to at least 8% in line with the National Health Policy.
Pratima Mondal is an Indian politician who has been a Member of Parliament for Jaynagar since 2014. She is belonging to the All India Trinamool Congress.
Uttarparanij is a census town within the jurisdiction of the Jaynagar Majilpur police station in the Jaynagar I CD block in the Baruipur subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
The All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is a group of autonomous government public medical universities of higher education under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare,Government of India. These institutes have been declared by an Act of Parliament as Institutes of National Importance. AIIMS New Delhi,the forerunner institute,was established in 1956 under administration of Jawaharlal Nehru. Since then,24 more institutes were announced.
