Bhadreswar Municipality (BHADRESWAR MUNICIPALITY) is an old ULB established in 1869. It spans an area of 8.28 sq. kms. The cosmopolitan town has a mixture of Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Telugu and Oriya speaking populations. While the Bengalis comprise the bulk of the people (50%), the others together make up for the rest. The non−Bengali speaking populations are migrants into BHADRESWAR MUNICIPALITY. It comprises 22 wards in year 2010. The industrial landscape shows the domination of jute mills few old private engineering factories set up in 1965ƒ66and some small scale cottage industries. The local economy provides options for engagement in bakery products, soft doll making, plastic goods etc. People are largely engaged as labour and the rest work in the cottage industries or as daily wage workers. Despite this, the unemployment rate in town is nearly 20%. There are also a large proportion of workers in sporadic or semi employment. Such a picture of employment is the reason for poverty in the town. Because of the poverty situation, the town has colonies of squatters’ settlements on land belonging to the Railways, Irrigation and Public Works Departments. There are also pavement dwellers as well as hawkers on pavements.