Hasnabad
Hasnabad is a village and a gram panchayat in Hasnabad CD Block in Basirhat subdivision of North 24 Parganas district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Police station
Hasnabad police station covers an area of 295 km2 and serves a population of 218,520. It has jurisdiction over Taki municipality and Hasnabad CD Block. There is a town out-post at Rajbari. It has a riverine border of 28 km, out of which 27 km is unfenced.| Guarding a Riverine Border |
Hasnabad is right on the border with Bangladesh. The meandering Ichhamati forms the riverine border. Guarding such a border is laced with many challenges: Bangladeshi infiltrators, armed cattle smugglers, human traffickers….The Border Security Force is now using floating border outposts, which coordinate with their pickets set across the river bank. Each floating outpost is manned by 34 specially trained BSF peronnel and are provided with the latest electronic surveillance gadgets and speed boats. More such floating outposts are being added to provide BSF with a strategic edge in guarding a porous border in one of the most thickly populated regions of the world. |
CD Block HQ
The headquarters of Hasnabad CD Block are located at Hasnabasd village.Demographics
As per the 2011 Census of India, Hasnabad had a total population of 3,412, of which 1.863 were males and 1,549 were females. Population below 6 years was 320. The total number of literates in Hasnabad was 2,642.Transport
is the terminus of the Barasat-Hasnabad line, which is part the Kolkata Suburban Railway railway system.SH 2 passes through Hasnabad.
The 684 m long bridge across the Katakhali at Hasnabad was opened to public in March 2019, linking Hingalganj with Hasnabad. Lebukhali, the last point up to which motorised transport can reach is now directly connected to Kolkata and other places.