West Bengalপশ্চিমবঙ্গ
State
- Capital
- Kolkata
- Legislature
- Unicameral
- Assembly seats
- 294
- Lok Sabha seats
- 42
- Rajya Sabha seats
- 16
- Districts
- 23
- Governor / LG / Administrator
- Shri R. N. RaviAs of 2026-11-04
- Chief Minister
- Shri Suvendu AdhikariAs of 2026-11-04
Inside the state government
Local bodies
- District panchayats
- 22
- Intermediate panchayats
- 345
- Village panchayats
- 3,339
- Traditional local bodies
- 1
- Urban bodies
- 128
- Cantonment boards
- 3
Departments 53
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- Agriculture Department
- Agriculture Marketing Department
- Animal Resources Development Department
- Backward Classes Welfare Department
- Banglar Uchchashiksha, Higher Education Department
- Chief Electoral Officer
- Co-operation Department
- Consumer Affairs Department
- Correctional Administration (Jails) Department
- Criminal Investigation Department
- Disaster Management and Civil Defence Department
- Environment Department
- Excise Directorate
- Finance Department
- Fire and Emergency Services Department
- Fisheries Department
- Food and Supplies Department
- Forest Department
- Health and Family Welfare Department
- Home and Hill Affairs Department
- Housing Department
- Industry, Commerce & Enterprises Department
- Information and Cultural Affairs Department
- Information Technology and Electronics Department
- Irrigation and Waterways Department
- Judicial Department
- Labour Department
- Land and Land Reform & Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation Department
- Law Department
- Mass Education Extension and Library Services Department
- Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises and Textiles Department
- Minorities Affairs and Madrasah Education Department
- North Bengal Development Department
- Panchayat and Rural Development Department
- Parliamentary Affairs Department
- Paschimanchal Unnayan Affairs Department
- Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department
- Planning, Statistics and Programme Monitoring Department
- Public Enterprises and Industrial Reconstruction
- Public Health Engineering Department
- Public Works Department
- School Education Department
- Science and Technology and Biotechnology Department
- Self Help Group and Self Employment Department
- Sundarban Affairs Department
- Technical Education, Training and Skill Development Department
- Tourism Department
- Transport Department
- Tribal Development Department
- Urban Development & Municipal Affairs Department
- Water Resources Investigation & Development Department
- Women and Child Development and Social Welfare Department
- Youth Services and Sports Department
From the government's web directory, which may not list every department.
Sources
- Parliament of India: State Legislatures Checked: 2026-11-04
- Election Commission of India: Terms of the Houses Checked: 2026-11-04
- Local Government Directory (LGD), Ministry of Panchayati Raj Checked: 2026-11-04
- National Portal of India: Who's Who, Governors Checked: 2026-11-04
- National Portal of India: Who's Who, Chief Ministers Checked: 2026-11-04
- Local Government Directory: State wise Administrative Units report Checked: 2026-11-04
- National Portal of India: Web Directory, State & UT Checked: 2026-11-04
- Wikidata (community-edited, not official) Checked: 2026-11-04