Jadavpur University (Bengali: যাদবপুর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) or JU is a premier Public research oriented university located in urban metropolitan city of Kolkata, West Bengal.

It has two campuses: the main campus at Jadavpur and the new campus at Salt Lake, approximately 12.6 kilometres (7.8 mi) and 8.8 kilometres (5.5 mi) from the city centre respectively. A third campus is due to open at the site of the erstwhile National Instruments (CSIR India), opposite the main campus along the Raja S.C. Mullick Road.

History

National Council of Education, Bengal

One of the three universities in modern India, set up by the British in Calcutta in 1861 as a means of spreading western philosophical thought among the elite in India and to create in the words of Lord Macaulcay, “a class of Indians who would be Indian in blood and colour but western in thought and ideas.” This initiative was furthered by the passing of the Universities Act of 1904. This resulted in the reorganization of the Calcutta University’s Senate and Syndicate by the nomination of more white members into them, which in turn would enable the government to control its policies. The government also decided to disaffiliate many private Indian colleges, which had come up lately and were regarded by the Government as hot beds of nationalist agitation. The measures stirred the educated middle class to move for alternative systems of education.

Jadavpur (Bengali:যাদবপুর) is a southern neighbourhood of Kolkata, India.Jadavpur is one of the important juncture in south kolkata. It is bounded by Dhakuria to the north, Tollygunge to the west, Santoshpur to the east and Garia to the south. Several of India's major learning institutes are located in Jadavpur, around the Raja SC Mullick Road, including the Jadavpur University, the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, KPC Medical College and Hospital, West Bengal's first private-public partnership medical college, the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology among others.

The Jadavpur market area is often casually referred to as the "8B" area, due to the sprawling 8B bus terminus that dominates the major crossing of the area. It is the centre of Jadavpur downtown, right across from Jadavpur University and a few hundred yards from KPC Medical College and Hospital and K.S. Roy T.B. Hospital.

History

Right after the independence, West Bengal recorded an enormous influx of people from East Bengal, now Bangladesh, a migration so large that the "displaced persons" made up nearly 18 per cent of Kolkata's population. To accommodate the sudden increase in population, a large number of colonies emerged within the Calcutta Corporation area itself. One of the areas of concentration of the refugee colonies was the southeast portion of the CMD in the Jadavpur, Tollygunj, Kasba, Santoshpur areas. The refugees were interested in building their huts of "darma and bamboo" in the low-lying and marshy areas near Calcutta and many of them, belonging to middle classes, wanted to be near the metropolis for occupational interests. This is how Jadavpur started. This gave rise to the para culture (aka neighborhood) there are a number of known paras and people not familiar with the area may need to know which specific para they are looking for.Jadavpur was named after late Jadav Narayan Sarkar, Zaminder of Sonarpur.

Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Jadavpur is a neighborhood in Kolkata.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 150 Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 96, 99, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 109 and 110 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.

Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 22 Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election results

2011

In the 2011 elections, Manish Gupta of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Buddhadeb Bhattcharya of CPI(M).

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

Note: New constituencies – 7, constituencies abolished – 8 (See template talk page for details)

2006

In the 2006 elections, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Dipak Kumar Ghosh of AITC

.# Swing calculated on Trinamool Congress+BJP vote percentages taken together in 2006.

Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Jadavpur in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 22 Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency) are in South 24 Parganas district.

Assembly segments

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 22 Jadavpur is composed of the following segments from 2009:

In 2004 Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:Baruipur (assembly constituency no. 104), Jadavpur (assembly constituency no. 108), Bishnupur East (SC) (assembly constituency no. 110), Behala East (assembly constituency no. 112), Behala West (assembly constituency no. 113), Magrahat West (assembly constituency no. 120), Kabitirtha (assembly constituency no. 147)