Garakupi

Garakupi গাঁড়াকুপি
Village,Market
North side
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas district
Block	Hasnabad (community development block)
Government
• MP	Idris Ali(2014 Lok Sabha)
• MLA	ATM Abdullah(Roni)
• Rank	Polpular
Population  (2011)Population counted in 2010 and circulated in 2011
• Total	2,029
Languages
• Official	Bengali, English
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	743456
Area & Telephone code	03217
Vehicle registration	WB26
Lok Sabha constituency	Basirhat
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Basirhat Uttar
Website	north24parganas.nic.in

Garakupi is a village situated in the Hasnabad sub district/tehsil/taluk, North 24 Parganas district, in the state of West Bengal.The population in Garakupi village is 2,029 as per the survey of census during 2011 by Indian Government. It is one of 75 villages in Hasnabad Block along with villages like Manipurand Khorda.

Etymology

‘Garakupi’ is a Bengali word adopted from old man many years ago. Garakupi had its earlier name “Garapota” but it is no more today. But something can be understood by this word ‘pota’ is meant that something digging into soil and ‘kupi’ has the same meaning to ‘pota’. So ‘Gara’ may be a thing and it is dug into soil.

Education

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Garakupi High School

The Education is quite developed as Garakupi High School(H.S) is a higher secondary school situated on the breast of Garakupi. It is run by State Government and affiliated with WBBSE & WBCHSE

As a market

Garakupi is divided into two parts, one is North side and other is South side. These two parts divided by the branch of Bidyadhari River. It was merely a small residential place for people but it has been changed for both market and living place. The market was very small then before 1990 because the number of shops was so few but today it has been a large market after increasing many shops and buildings. Today it became one of the popular markets in this area. It is consisted by getting many places and formed a large range area about 1.2 km. From the starting to end the market arranged with very expansive style that the market looks like beautiful.

Fruit Corner

Type of Market

It is a market for goods and essential products for people, daily buying and selling market. The people from nearby sites comes to this market and buying and selling system goes on through this way. The wide range of products are available here such as Raw material, all type of vegetables, stationary product and so on.

Fish stall

Garakupi is a market where fish can be seen to sell at any time. For fish a separate stall selected permanently by the marketing committee. All type of fish available in this separated stall such as: Ilish, Grass carp, Koy, Silver carp, Tilapia, Catla, Chingri and so on. Chingri, Tilapia and Rui Fish commonly sell here and the popular fish ever eaten in nearby village.

Vegetable market

Vegetable market is an organ of Garakupi Market but is separated like Fish stall. The vegetables which buyers get are taken from Vegetable land where pure vegetable grows. There are many sellers who plant these type of vegetable on their own vegetable land and Kitchen garden and bring them in the market for selling. These vegetables demand mostly and buyers try to purchase them. The vegetables which are available here such of them : Carrot, Brinjal, Potato, Onion, Cabbage, Bean, Cauliflower, Chayote(PePe), Chilli , Gherkin, Green Peas, Raw banana, Pumpkin, Ridge Gourd, Sweet Potato, Tomato, Swiss Chard(Laal saak), Bitter melon, Okra, Shallot(Cut onion) and many others.

Upper Market

Upper market, now showing one of the Grocery shops on left side to the south.

Upper market means the market on road side. About 1.2 km long the building (shops) are spreading two sides on the road, some are completed and some are incomplete but construction going on. But it has been a major junction just after gradually developed. The upper market comes to face to one another building as the two sides of the road gaped with many buildings. Here are many type of shops as Stationary Stores, Grocery shops (Mudikhana) , Doctor’s Clinic, Bookstall or Library , Tea house, Electronic repairing shop, First food shop,restaurent , Cloth shop, Enterprise shop, Barber’s shop etc.