Dist. Magistrate Office, South 24 Parganas

Too much delaying to issue Caste certificate! Approx 15 days my certificate is pending for approval. From bdo and sdo office it has been already delayed for 4 months now from ADM office the issue of certificate is delaying. Officers and staffs are not working in West Bengal. Hopeless service

This is the head quater of District Magistrate, South 24 PGS. Many Administrative building located around this place.

This place seems to be in a convenient location. But there are few direct buses from south n north Kolkata that will reach U at this place. Auto services are also not there. U have to come to kalighat or hazra to get more options for transportation

This place is so unorganised, choatic, confusing. When you compare this place to a fish market, the fish market looks more orderly. Once you reach this place, be rest assured that your entire day is going to be wasted, by making rounds of the numerous offices located here and the irony will be that your entire day's labour will go in vain as you won't get any result. You will be called the next day or the day after next. This is the work culture which is persisting in Bengal of today. All that you can do is grin and bear it.

An important State Government Office where many departments are there to offer help to the public.

Cannot imagine that District Magistrate will give so much of time and hear us so patiently. His secretaies are also soft spoken & wrll behaved. The office is little different from normal Govetnment office.

The HQ of South 24 Pgs.,houses the DM office with many depatments,police court,bank,post offices,the police headquarters bhabani bhavan is just beside the complex,pwd offices are in the bhabani bhavan complex.

The nomenclature 24-Parganas has been in vogue since 15 July 1757 when Mir Jafar whom the East India Company had just established as Nawab of Bengal ceded to the Company the rights of 24 mahals. The treaty by which the cession is recorded says that "all the land lying to the south of Calcutta as far as Culpee, shall be under the Zemindari of the English Company and all the officers of this Zemindari shall be under their jurisdiction. The revenue to be paid by it (the company) in the same manner with other Zemindari". The Parwana notifying effect to the Treaty mentions the name of the 24 units of granted land. The District of 24-Parganas started taking shape under Clause Nos.2,3 and 9 of the Regualtion of 1793. The respective jurisdictions of the civil and criminal courts for the district and revenue jurisdiction of the District Collector were demarcated by the Regulations. This arrangement remained valid till 1800. The present district of South 24 Parganas came into existence on 1st of March, 1986. It then comprised of two sub divisions- Alipore and Diamond Harbour and of 30 blocks. Presently there are five sub divisions (Alipore, Baruipur, Canning, Diamond Harbour and Kakdwip), 29 blocks and 7 Municipalities