28-503: Raniganj is a neighbourhood in Asansol of Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal . It is governed by Asansol Municipal Corporation Raniganj is located at 23°37′N 87°08′E / 23.62°N 87.13°E / 23.62; 87.13 . It has an average elevation of 91 metres (298 feet ). The discovery of coal led to industrialisation of
56-410: A residents' committee ; these are subdivided into residents' small groups of fifteen to forty families. In most urban areas of China, neighbourhood , community , residential community , residential unit , residential quarter have the same meaning: 社区 or 小区 or 居民区 or 居住区 , and is the direct sublevel of a subdistrict ( 街道办事处 ), which is the direct sublevel of a district ( 区 ), which
84-796: A high level of regulation of social life by officials. For example, in the Tang period Chinese capital city Chang'an, neighbourhoods were districts and there were state officials who carefully controlled life and activity at the neighbourhood level. Neighbourhoods in preindustrial cities often had some degree of social specialisation or differentiation. Ethnic neighbourhoods were important in many past cities and remain common in cities today. Economic specialists, including craft producers, merchants, and others, could be concentrated in neighbourhoods, and in societies with religious pluralism neighbourhoods were often specialised by religion. One factor contributing to neighbourhood distinctiveness and social cohesion in past cities
112-414: A library with 2,000 books and a playground. Raniganj B.D.G. Vidyamandir is a Hindi-medium girls only institution established in 1959. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. The school has 12 computers and a library with 3,050 books. Gyan Bharati School is a Hindi-medium coeducational institution established in 1962. It has facilities for teaching from class I to class XII. The school has
140-458: A library with 3,500 books and a playground. Raniganj G.M. Girls’ High School is a Bengali-medium girls only institution established in 1946. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. The school has 20 computers, a library with 4,000 books and a playground. Raniganj Marwari Sanatan Vidyalaya is a Hindi-medium boys only institution established in 1912. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. The school has 1 computer,
168-415: A library with 3,981 books and a playground. Sishu Bharati Hindi High School is a Hindi-medium coeducational institution established in 1980. It has facilities for teaching from class I to class XII. The school has a playground. DAV Public School Raniganj is an English-medium coeducational institution established in 1999. It has facilities for teaching from class I to class XII. Nandalal Jalan Siksha Sadan
196-400: A library with 900 books. Searsole Girls’ High School is a Bengali-medium girls only institution established in 1965. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. The school has a library with 116 books and a playground. Searsole Raj High School is a Bengali-medium boys only institution established in 1856. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. The school has
224-405: A playground. Raniganj Sri Durga Vidyalaya is a Hindi-medium boys only institution established in 1963. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. The schools has 8 computers and a library with 700 books. Raniganj Urdu High School is an Urdu-medium co-educational institution established in 1967. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. The school has 10 computers and
252-546: A population of 122,891. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Raniganj has an average literacy rate of 64%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 72%, and female literacy is 56%. In Raniganj, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age. Languages spoken in Raniganj area (2011) Raniganj High School is a Bengali-medium boys only institution established in 1888. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. The school has 21 computers,
280-420: A small area within a town or city. The label is commonly used to refer to organisations which relate to such a very local structure, such as neighbourhood policing or Neighbourhood watch schemes. In addition, government statistics for local areas are often referred to as neighbourhood statistics, although the data themselves are broken down usually into districts and wards for local purposes. In many parts of
308-496: A specific geographic area and functionally as a set of social networks. Neighbourhoods, then, are the spatial units in which face-to-face social interactions occur—the personal settings and situations where residents seek to realise common values, socialise youth, and maintain effective social control." In the words of the urban scholar Lewis Mumford , "Neighborhoods, in some annoying, inchoate fashion exist wherever human beings congregate, in permanent family dwellings; and many of
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#1732855389140336-490: A unit of analysis. In mainland China , the term is generally used for the urban administrative division found immediately below the district level, although an intermediate, subdistrict level exists in some cities. They are also called streets (administrative terminology may vary from city to city). Neighbourhoods encompass 2,000 to 10,000 families. Within neighbourhoods, families are grouped into smaller residential units or quarters of 100 to 600 families and supervised by
364-416: Is Tapas Banerjee and current MP from Asansol Lok Sabha Constituency is Shatrughan Sinha . The mayor of Asansol Municipal Corporation is Bidhan Upadhyay According to the 2011 census, 83.33% of the population of Asansol Sadar subdivision was urban and 16.67% was rural. Asansol Sadar subdivision has 26 (+1 partly) Census Towns (partly presented in the map alongside; all places marked on the map are linked in
392-426: Is a geographically localized community within a larger city , town , suburb or rural area , sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourhoods are often social communities with considerable face-to-face interaction among members. Researchers have not agreed on an exact definition, but the following may serve as a starting point: "Neighbourhood is generally defined spatially as
420-805: Is an English-medium coeducational institution established in 1986. It has facilities for teaching from class I to class XII. The school has 14 computers, a library with 3,500 books and a playground. Ballavpur Rural Hospital, with 50 beds, is the major government medical facility in the Raniganj CD block. Raniganj Block Primary Health centre at Raniganj functions with 25 beds. There are primary health centres at Baktarnagar (with 6 beds) and Tirat (with 6 beds). Other hospitals at Raniganj include Anandlok Hospital, B.N. Agarwal Memorial Hospital, Eye hospital, Kunusturia Area Hospital Marwari Relief Society Hospital among others. Neighbourhood A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English)
448-577: Is the direct sublevel of a city ( 市 ). (See Administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China ) The term has no general official or statistical purpose in the United Kingdom, but is often used by local boroughs for self-chosen sub-divisions of their area for the delivery of various services and functions, as for example in Kingston-upon-Thames or is used as an informal term to refer to
476-437: The 2011 Census of India Raniganj municipal area had a total population of 129,441, of which 65,578 (52%) were males and 61,863 (48%) were females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 15,721. The total number of literate persons in Raniganj was 88,299 (87.85% of the population over 6 years). *For language details see Raniganj (community development block)#Language and religion As of 2001 India census , Raniganj had
504-559: The 1900s, Clarence Perry described the idea of a neighbourhood unit as a self-contained residential area within a city. The concept is still influential in New Urbanism . Practitioners seek to revive traditional sociability in planned suburban housing based on a set of principles. At the same time, the neighbourhood is a site of interventions to create Age-Friendly Cities and Communities (AFCC) as many older adults tend to have narrower life space. Urban design studies thus use neighbourhood as
532-553: The UK wards are roughly equivalent to neighbourhoods or a combination of them. In the United States and Canada , neighbourhoods are often given official or semi-official status through neighbourhood associations , neighbourhood watches or block watches. These may regulate such matters as lawn care and fence height, and they may provide such services as block parties , neighbourhood parks and community security . In some other places
560-572: The area and most of the forests have been cleared. Nunia, a small stream about 40 km (25 mi) long has its origin near Adra village in the Salanpur area, flows through the Barabani area and joins the Damodar in the Raniganj area. Gram panchayats under Raniganj Panchayat Samiti are: Ratibati, Tirat, Egra, Amrasota, Jemari and Ballavpur. The current MLA from Raniganj legislative assembly constituency
588-719: The control of city or state officials. In some preindustrial urban traditions, basic municipal functions such as protection, social regulation of births and marriages, cleaning and upkeep are handled informally by neighbourhoods and not by urban governments; this pattern is well documented for historical Islamic cities. In addition to social neighbourhoods, most ancient and historical cities also had administrative districts used by officials for taxation, record-keeping, and social control. Administrative districts are typically larger than neighbourhoods and their boundaries may cut across neighbourhood divisions. In some cases, however, administrative districts coincided with neighbourhoods, leading to
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#1732855389140616-435: The early 2000s, Community Development Corporations, Rehabilitation Networks, Neighbourhood Development Corporations, and Economic Development organisations would work together to address the housing stock and the infrastructures of communities and neighbourhoods (e.g., community centres). Community and Economic Development may be understood in different ways, and may involve "faith-based" groups and congregations in cities. In
644-552: The equivalent organization is the parish , though a parish may have several neighbourhoods within it depending on the area. In localities where neighbourhoods do not have an official status, questions can arise as to where one neighbourhood begins and another ends. Many cities use districts and wards as official divisions of the city, rather than traditional neighbourhood boundaries. ZIP Code boundaries and post office names also sometimes reflect neighbourhood identities. Searsole Raj High School Searsole Raj High School
672-615: The full-screen map). According to the Kolkata Gazette notification of 3 June 2015, the municipal areas of Kulti , Raniganj and Jamuria were included within the jurisdiction of Asansol Municipal Corporation . Raniganj police station has jurisdiction over parts of the Asansol Municipal Corporation . The area covered is 113.05 km (43.65 sq mi) and the population covered is 249,618. The headquarters of Raniganj CD block are located at Raniganj. According to
700-585: The functions of the city tend to be distributed naturally—that is, without any theoretical preoccupation or political direction—into neighborhoods." Most of the earliest cities around the world as excavated by archaeologists have evidence for the presence of social neighbourhoods. Historical documents shed light on neighbourhood life in numerous historical preindustrial or nonwestern cities. Neighbourhoods are typically generated by social interaction among people living near one another. In this sense they are local social units larger than households not directly under
728-431: The neighbourhood as a small-scale democracy , regulated primarily by ideas of reciprocity among neighbours. Neighbourhoods have been the site of service delivery or "service interventions" in part as efforts to provide local, quality services, and to increase the degree of local control and ownership. Alfred Kahn, as early as the mid-1970s, described the "experience, theory and fads" of neighbourhood service delivery over
756-571: The prior decade, including discussion of income transfers and poverty. Neighbourhoods, as a core aspect of community, also are the site of services for youth, including children with disabilities and coordinated approaches to low-income populations. While the term neighbourhood organisation is not as common in 2015, these organisations often are non-profit, sometimes grassroots or even core funded community development centres or branches. Community and economic development activists have pressured for reinvestment in local communities and neighbourhoods. In
784-482: Was the role of rural to urban migration. This was a continual process in preindustrial cities, and migrants tended to move in with relatives and acquaintances from their rural past. Neighbourhood sociology is a subfield of urban sociology which studies local communities Neighbourhoods are also used in research studies from postal codes and health disparities , to correlations with school drop out rates or use of drugs. Some attention has also been devoted to viewing
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