Govt Cantonment Board Barrackpore Jobs 2022 - Sarkari Naukri

Barrackpore Cantonment is a city and a Cantonment Board of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is close to Kolkata and also a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. It is situated on the bank of Hooghly River has the distinction of being the oldest in the country, indeed the sub continent and came in to being in 1772 and remained the symbolic seat of military power until the capital of British India was shifted from Kolkata to New Delhi.

Barrackpore Cantonment is bounded by North Barrackpore Municipality on the north and Barrackpore Municipality on the east and south , the Hooghly River on the west.

As per Census of India 2011, Barrackpore Cantonment Board had a civil population of 17,380 of which 8872 (51%) were males and 8508 (49%) were females. Population below 6 years was 1447. The total number of literates in Barrackpore Cantonment Board was 14098 (88.47% of the population over 6 years).