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Binodpur Gram Panchayat

government office in West Bengal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ55605477 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Gram Panchayat of Sattari or Sattari Gram Panchayat also known as Binodpur Gram Panchayat (abbreviated as BGP), is a government office and local self-government body that governs the village of Sattari and 8 nearby villages with 13 G.P constituencies or three Panchayat Samity constituencies in English Bazar Block of District Malda in the state of West Bengal, India. It has control of The English Bazar police station serves this panchayat, with its headquarters at Sattari village.

Geography

Binodpur Gram Panchayat is located at 24.9913°N 88.0372°E / 24.9913; 88.0372 Sattari village of English Bazar Block in Malda district.

History

The Binodpur Gram Panchayat was panchayati raj power held by Government of West Bengal since 1977 under Panchayati raj (India). This panchayat is administrated by English Bazar Block.

On 27 July 2012 the office was vandalized by angry villagers who were demanding road repairs. While pradhan of the district allowed the meeting to begin, he himself wasn't present and therefore angered the community.

Pradhans

Electoral divisions

Gram Panchayat seats at Binodpur Gram Panchayat

Panchayat Samiti seats at Binodpur Gram Panchayat

Members of Gram Panchayat

Member of Binodpur Gram Panchayat 2018

Member of Binodpur Gram Panchayat 2013-2018

Members of Panchayat Samity

Members of Panchayat Samity at Binodpur Gram Panchayat 2018

Members of Panchayat Samity at Binodpur Gram Panchayat 2013

Villages

It covers 9 villages, with their names and parts as follows.

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“Binodpur Gram Panchayat” enters the record as government office in West Bengal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Binodpur, Gram and Panchayat can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55605477. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1977, 2012, 2018 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Binodpur Gram Panchayat” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.