Bagdah

Bagdah
বাগদা সমষ্টি উন্নয়ন ব্লক
Community development block
Bagdah

Location in West Bengal, India

Coordinates: 23°13′N 88°53′E / 23.22°N 88.88°E / 23.22; 88.88Coordinates: 23°13′N 88°53′E / 23.22°N 88.88°E / 23.22; 88.88
Country  India
State West Bengal
District North 24 Parganas
Area
 • Total 233.05 km2 (89.98 sq mi)
Elevation 13 m (43 ft)
Population (2011)
 • Total 242,974
 • Density 1,000/km2 (2,700/sq mi)
Languages
 • Official Bengali, English
Literacy (2011)
 • Total literates 164,283 (75.30%)
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN

743232 (Bagdah)
743297 (Sindrani)
743270

(Helencha Colony)
Telephone/STD code 03215
Vehicle registration WB-23, WB-24, WB-25, WB-26
Lok Sabha constituency Bangaon
Vidhan Sabha constituency Bagda
Website north24parganas.nic.in

Bagdah (also spelled Bagda) is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Bangaon subdivision of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Bagdah police station serves this block. Headquarters of this block is at Bagdah. It is located 73 km from Barasat, the district headquarters.

Geography

Location

Bagdah is located at 23°13′N 88°53′E / 23.22°N 88.88°E / 23.22; 88.88.

Bagdah CD Block is bounded by Maheshpur Upazila in Jhenaidaha District, Chaugachha Upazila and Sharsha Upazila in Jessore District of Bangladesh in the north and east, Bangaon CD Block in the south and Hanskhali and Ranaghat II CD Blocks in Nadia district in the west.[1][2]

Area

Bagdah community development block has an area of 233.05 km2.[3]

Physical features

North 24 Parganas district is part of the Gangetic delta, lying east of the Hooghly River. The country is flat. It is a little raised above flood level and the highest ground borders the river channels. The rivers in the district were formerly distributaries of the Ganges but their mouths have long been filled up and blocked. The area is described as a sort of a drowned land broken by swamps. Land in the north-east of the district is higher than that of the rest of the district. The sturdy peasants raise crops of rice, jute and sugarcane from the alluvial soil. There are clumps of palm and fruit trees in which village homesteads nestle. Industrial activity is concentrated in the narrow strip of land along the Hooghly River. The south-eastern part of the district gradually merges into the Sunderbans.[4] Parts of the metropolitan city of Kolkata extend over southern part of the district.

Gram panchayats

Gram panchayats of Bagdah block/ panchayat samiti are: Asharu, Helencha, Malipota, Bagda, Koniara I, Ranghat, Bayra, Koniara II and Sindrani.[5]

Demographics

As per 2011 Census of India Bagda CD Block had a total population of 242,974, all of which were rural. There were 125,270 (52%) males and 117,704 (48%) females. Population below 6 years was 24,801. Scheduled Castes numbered 133,170 and Scheduled Tribes numbered 12,960.[6]

At the time of the 2001 census, Bagdah block had a total population of 219,812 out of which 112,595 were males and 107,217 were females. Bagdah block registered a population growth of 15.23 per cent during the 1991-2001 decade. Decadal growth for the district was 22.40 per cent.[3] Decadal growth in West Bengal was 17.84 per cent.[7]

Large villages

Large villages in Bagdah CD Block (2011 census figures in brackets): Sindrani (9,811), Char Mandalbhag (8,456), Mathabhanga (4,115), Khordda Kulbaria (4,004), Bagdaha (6,424), Mamabhagina (5,144), Helencha (6,375), Karanga (4,398), Parmadan (6,087), Godpukuria (4,586) and Gobindapur (4,525).[6]

Literacy

As per 2011 census the total number of literates in Bagda CD Block was 164,283 (75.30% of the population over 6 years) out of which 90,492 (55%) were males and 73,791 (45%) were females.[6]

As per 2011 census, literacy in North 24 Parganas district was 84.06 (including urban areas outside the CD Blocks).[8] Literacy in West Bengal was 77.08% in 2011.[9] Literacy in India in 2011 was 74.04%.[9]

Language

Bengali is the local language in these areas.[1]

Human Development Report

According to Census 2001, 54% of the population of North 24 Parganas district lived in the urban areas. The district had 1,571 inhabited villages spread over 22 community development blocks. In the urban area there were 27 municipalities, 20 census towns, 7 urban outgrowths and one town under Cantonment Board. The North 24 Parganas district Human Development Report opines that in spite of agricultural productivity in North 24 Parganas district being rather impressive 81.84% of rural population suffered from shortage of food. The number of families living below the poverty line varied widely from block to block. Even in some municipal areas, such as Baduria, Gobardanga, Taki, Basirhat, Bangaon and Habra surveys have revealed large percentage of people living in poverty. Several poverty alleviation schemes are under implementation mostly at the block level. North 24 Parganas district with a population density of 2,192 persons per square km, was the third densest in West Bengal, after Kolkata and Howrah. The high density of population in the district is largely because of large scale migration of refugees from erstwhile East Pakistan, particularly in the period 1947 to 1955. In 2004, life expectancy at birth of a female was 71 years and that of a male was 66 years. With a literacy rate of 68.74% in 2001, the district was second only to Kolkata in the state in literacy. There were 6,139 habitations in the rural areas of North 24 Parganas. Out of these 2,331 habitations have primary schools within the villages and another 3,334 habitations have primary schools within 1 km. There are 474 habitations with primary schools beyond 1 km from the village. There were 258 high schools in the rural areas of the district.[10]

Bagdah CD Block had a population density of 942 persons per km2. It was ranked 19 amongst the 22 CD Blocks for density of population in 2001. It had a literacy rate of 66.59%, ranking of 16. Male literacy rate was 74.12% and female literacy rate was 58.67%. Percentage distribution of main workers in Bagdah CD Block was cultivators 30.84, agricultural labourers 36.23, household industry workers 3.92 and other workers 29.01 (non-agricultural, non-household). 14.56% of households in this CD Block lived below poverty line.[10]

In the Bagdah CD Block 10 villages had secondary schools and for all villages a college was more than 5 km away. Bagdah had 15 high schools with 13,312 students and 212 teachers. It had 7 higher secondary schools with 13,290 students and 205 teachers.[10]

In Bagdah, 70.75% of the villages had electricity for domestic use, 96.23% villages had paved approach roads, 94.34% villages had primary schools, 0.94% of the villages had maternity and child welfare centres, and 100% villages had drinking water. The tube well is the source of drinking water in 1,244 out of 1,572 villages in the district. In Bagdah CD Block, 81 villages had tube wells for drinking water, 20 villages had tap water and 1 village used tank water. Bagdah CD Block had 204 km surfaced roads and 276 km unsurfaced roads.[10]

North 24 Parganas is one of the leading districts in the formation and development of self-help groups. In Bagdah there were 1,025 such groups. The major activities done by these groups were poultry, animal-husbandry, machine-embroidery and tailoring. Bagdah CD Block had 4 health centres and 35 sub-centres.[10]

Healthcare

Bagdah block is one of the areas where ground water is affected by arsenic contamination.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 "Bagda Block". onefivenine. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "North 24 Parganas District". Map Gallery – CD Blocks. North 24 Parganas district administration. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Census of India 2001, Provisional Population Totals, West Bengal, Table - 4". North Twenty Four Parganas District (11). Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
  4. ↑ LSS O’Malley. "Bengal District Gazzetteers: 24 Parganas". p 1-4. Google Books. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  5. ↑ From Bangaon subdivision page.
  6. 1 2 3 "C.D. Block Wise Primary Census Abstract Data(PCA)". West Bengal – District-wise CD Blocks. Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  7. ↑ "Provisional Population Totals, West Bengal. Table 4". Census of India 2001. Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
  8. ↑ "District Census 2011". Population Census 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  9. 1 2 "Provisional population tables and annexures" (PDF). Census 2011:Table 2(3) Literates and Literacy rates by sex. Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 "District Human Development Report: North 24 Parganas" (PDF). Intro Pp 3, 6, 8, 22, 38, 202; Block specific Pp 20, 22, 27, 28, 31, 86, 89, 123, 145, 151, 189. Development & Planning Department, Government of West Bengal, 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  11. ↑ "Groundwater Arsenic contamination in West Bengal-India (20 years study )". Groundwater arsenic contamination status of North 24-Parganas district, one of the nine arsenic affected districts of West Bengal-India. SOES. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
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