Mathurapur I
| Mathurapur I মথুরাপুর I | |
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Community development block সমষ্টি উন্নয়ন ব্লক | |
  Mathurapur I Location in West Bengal | |
| Coordinates: 22°10′01″N 88°16′56″E / 22.16694°N 88.28222°E | |
| Country |
 India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | South 24 Parganas |
| Parliamentary constituency | Mathurapur |
| Assembly constituency | Raidighi, Mandirbazar |
| Area | |
| • Total | 147.3 km2 (56.9 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 9 m (30 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 195,104 |
| • Density | 1,300/km2 (3,400/sq mi) |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5.30) |
| PIN | 743354 (Mathurapur) |
| Area code(s) | 03174 |
| Vehicle registration | WB-19, WB-20, WB-22 |
| Literacy Rate | 73.93 per cent |
| Website | http://www.bdomathone.in/bdom/ |
Mathurapur I is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Diamond Harbour subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
History
Land reforms
During 1946-1950 the Tebhaga movement in several parts of the 24 Parganas district led to the enactment of the Bargadari Act. Although the Bargadari Act of 1950 recognised the rights of bargadars to a higher share of crops from the land that they tilled, it was not implemented. Large tracts, beyond the prescribed limit of land ceiling, remained with the rich landlords. In 1967, West Bengal witnessed peasant uprising, against non-implementation of land reforms legislation, starting from Kheyadaha gram panchayat in Sonarpur CD Block. From 1977 onwards major land reforms took place in West Bengal under the Left Front government. Land in excess of land ceiling was acquired and distributed amongst the peasants. Subsequently, “Operation Barga” was aimed at securing tenancy rights for the peasants. In Mathurapur I CD Block 979.88 acres of land was acquired and vested. Out of this 607.37 acres or 62.02% of the vested land was distributed. The total number of patta holders was 1,787.[1]
Geography
Location
Mathurapur is located at 22°07′07″N 88°23′32″E / 22.1187°N 88.3921°E.
Mathurapur I CD Block is bounded by Jaynagar II CD Block in the north, Jaynagar II and Mathurapur II CD Blocks in the east, Patharpratima CD Block in the south, Kulpi and Mandirbazar CD Blocks in the west.[2][3]
It is located 56 km from Alipore, the district headquarters.[2]
Area and administration
Mathurapur I CD Block has an area of 147.3 km2. Mathurapur and Dholahat police stations serve this CD Block. Mathurapur I panchayat samity has 10 gram panchayats. The block has 95 inhabited villages.[4]Headquarters of this block is at Mathurapur.
Sundarbans settlements
The Sundarbans area, in the south of the district, includes 102 deltaic islands, out of which 54 are inhabited and the rest is reserved forest. The area spread over 54,000 sq km is home to 3.9 million people or around 40% of the population of the district. As per December 2001 census there were 271 Royal Bengal tigers and other animals in the Indian portion of the Sundarban forest, spread across 42,000 sq km. The floor of the Sunderbans varies from 0.9 m to 2.11 m above sea level. Tidal saline water from the Bay of Bengal alternatively drowns and exposes the islands twice a day throughout the year. Around 3,500 km of earthen embankments, protecting the inhabited islands, have been facing the daily onslaught in a cycloe-prone area for more than a century. Clearing of the forests effectively started in 1781 and in about a century Hingalganj, Hasnabad, Sandeshkhali I and II, Minakhan, Haroa (all in North 24 Parganas district in 2016) Canning I and II, Jaynagar I and II, Mathurapur I and II, and Sagar (all in South 24 Parganas district in 2016) had been fully or substantially cleared of forests. Thereafter, much of the interiors of Kakdwip, Patharpratima, Basanti, Kultali and Gosaba were cleared for human settlement. People started moving in to the area. The refugees from erstwhile East Pakistan were the last to come in large numbers between 1951 and 1971. Canning I and II, Jaynagar I and II, Mathurapur I and II, Kakdwip and Namkhana are a little away from the forests and being attached/ connected to the mainland their conditions are similar to other mainland blocks in the district, but Basanti, Gosaba, Kultali, Patharpratima and Sagar are largely isolated from the mainland. These islands are mostly separated from the deep forest by a river. Electric connections are rare, and transport and communications, other than river transport, are not there. Around 95% people depend on rain-fed agriculture. Sagar lies at the mouth of the Hooghly, which carries fresh water and so things are a little different there. The sea level, around India, is estimated to be rising at 2.55 mm per year. In the last 70 years, 220 sq km of forest land has been submerged and the process continues.[5]
Gram panchayats
Gram panchayats of Mathurapur I block/panchayat samiti are: Abad Bhagabanpur, Debipur, Krishnachndrapur, Lakshmi Narayanpur (N), Lakshmi Narayanpur (S), Lalpur, Mathurapur Paschim, Mathurapur Purba, Nalua and Sankarpur.[6]
Demographics
As per 2011 Census of India Mathurapur I CD Block had a total population of 195,104, of which 169,263 were rural and 25,841 were urban. There were 100,093 (51%) males and 95,001 (49%) females. Population below 6 years was 27,851. Scheduled Castes numbered 68,636 and Scheduled Tribes numbered 496.[7]
As per 2001 census, Mathurapur I block had a total population of 164,585, out of which 84,933 were males and 79,652 were females. Mathurapur I block registered a population growth of 16.00 per cent during the 1991-2001 decade. Decadal growth for South 24 Parganas district was 20.89 per cent. Decadal growth in West Bengal was 17.84 per cent. Scheduled castes at 63,968 formed more than one-third the population. Scheduled tribes numbered 2,744.[4][8][9]
Census towns and large villages
Census towns in Mathurapur I CD Block (2011 census figures in brackets: Purba Ranaghat (5,207), Lalpur (4,691), Krishna Chandrapur (8,146) and Mathurapur (7,797).[7]
Large villages in Mathurapur CD Block (2011 census figures in brackets): Uttarshibganj (4,155), Nalua (19,071), Srikrishnanagar (4,117), Uttar Lakshminarayanpur (10,006), Ghoradal (12,170), Krishnarampur (6,204) and Ghatbakultala (4,435).[7]
Literacy
As per 2011 census the total number of literates in Mathurapur I CD Block was 123,647 (73.93% of the population over 6 years) out of which 69,311 (56%) were males and 54,366 (44%) were females.[7]
As per 2011 census, literacy in South 24 Parganas district was 77.51[10] Literacy in West Bengal was 77.08% in 2011.[11] Literacy in India in 2011 was 74.04%.[11]
As per 2001 census, Mathurapur I block had a total literacy of 65.41 per cent for the 6+ age group. While male literacy was 77.38 per cent female literacy was 52.53 per cent. South 24 Parganas district had a total literacy of 69.45 per cent, male literacy being 79.19 per cent and female literacy being 59.01 per cent.[4]
| Literacy in CD Blocks of South 24 Parganas district |
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| Alipore Sadar subdivision |
| Bishnupur I – 78.33% |
| Bishnupur II – 81.37% |
| Budge Budge I – 80.57% |
| Budge Budge II – 79.13% |
| Thakurpukur Mahestala – 83.54% |
| Baruipur subdivision |
| Baruipur – 76.46% |
| Bhangar I – 72.06% |
| Bhangar II – 74.49% |
| Jaynagar I – 73.17% |
| Jaynagar II – 69.71% |
| Kultali – 69.37% |
| Sonarpur – 79.70% |
| Canning subdivision |
| Basanti – 68.32% |
| Canning I – 70.76% |
| Canning II – 66.51% |
| Gosaba – 78.98% |
| Diamond Harbour subdivision |
| Diamond Harbour I – 75.72% |
| Diamond Harbour II – 76.91% |
| Falta – 77.17% |
| Kulpi – 75.49% |
| Magrahat I – 73.82% |
| Magrahat II – 77.41% |
| Mandirbazar – 75.89% |
| Mathurapur I – 73.93% |
| Mathurapur II – 77.77% |
| Kakdwip subdivision |
| Kakdwip – 77.93% |
| Namkhana – 85.72 |
| Patharpratima – 82.11% |
| Sagar – 84.21% |
| Source: 2011 Census: CD Block Wise Primary Census Abstract Data |
Language
Bengali is the local language in these areas.[2]
Human Development Report
According to the South 24 Parganas district Human Development Report, it is an overwhelmingly rural district with 85% of the population living in rural areas. An analysis of the district’s population shows that 33 percent of the district’s population belongs to Scheduled Castes. While 65.86% of people are Hindus, 33.24% are Muslims. 86% of the population resided in the 29 CD Blocks. In 2005, more than 4 lakh households were identified as living below poverty line, pushing the poverty ratio in the district to 34.11%, way above the state and national poverty ratios.[12]
Mathurapur I CD Block had a poverty ratio of 34.43% of the households in 2005. The Sundarbans region in general is afflicted with poverty with all the 13 CD Blocks recording above 30% and 8 CD Blocks recording more than 40% households in the BPL category.[12]
In standard of living Mathurapur I had a rank of 19 amongst all the 29 blocks. In infrastructure development it was 19th amongst all CD Blocks. In Mathurapur I, 11.1% households had access to electricity. The length of surfaced roads was 2.06 km per sq km area. The number of bank branches was 0.24 per 10,000 population. Lack of access to irrigation is a major problem for most of the CD Blocks in South 24 Parganas, but it assumes particular significance in the Sundarbans area, where there is limited scope for employment beyond the agricultural sector. In Mathurapur I, 55.97% of rural households were engaged as daily/ agricultural/ other physical labour, 16.77% were cultivators, 9.58% were self-employed rural artisans/ hawkers, 6.12% were engaged in labour oriented regular jobs in the unorganised sector, and 11.56% were engaged in the organised sector or work as professionals.[12]
As per 1991 census, while male literacy rate was 77.88% female literacy was 53.19% and there was a gender gap of 24.69% in Mathurapur I. In 2006, Mathurapur I had 26 secondary and higher secondary schools. All, but 3 of them, had library facility but 21 of them did not have computer facilities.[12] In 2006, in Mathurapur I for 155 villages there were 37 health sub-centres and 3 rural hospital/public health centres having 76 beds with 10 medical officers, 17 nurses, 44 health assistants and 5 pharmacists and technicians. 46.2% of the 262 habitations in Mathurapur I CD Block were fully covered with safe drinking water (including tube wells and tap water), 53.4% habitations were partly covered and 0.4% habitations were not covered.[12]
Mathurapur I has 15 km of embankments. Embankments raised along rivers are of critical importance for the safety of lives and protection of crops, against daily tides and tidal surges.[12]
| Poverty Ratio in CD Blocks of South 24 Parganas district |
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| Percentage of Households |
| Alipore Sadar subdivision |
| Bishnupur I – 16.59% |
| Bishnupur II – 10.82% |
| Budge Budge I – 14.78% |
| Budge Budge II – 34.04% |
| Thakurpukur Mahestala – 6.44% |
| Baruipur subdivision |
| Baruipur – 26.04% |
| Bhangar I – 28.22% |
| Bhangar II – 17.20% |
| Jaynagar I – 39.57% |
| Jaynagar II – 42.60% |
| Kultali – 46.86% |
| Sonarpur – 23.36% |
| Canning subdivision |
| Basanti – 64.89% |
| Canning I – 31.05% |
| Canning II – 50.32% |
| Gosaba – 38.03% |
| Diamond Harbour subdivision |
| Diamond Harbour I – 24.27% |
| Diamond Harbour II – 27.30% |
| Falta – 21.56% |
| Kulpi – 52.64% |
| Magrahat I – 28.41% |
| Magrahat II – 29.26% |
| Mandirbazar – 29.90% |
| Mathurapur I – 34.43% |
| Mathurapur II – 39.59% |
| Kakdwip subdivision |
| Kakdwip – 34.91% |
| Namkhana – 48.17% |
| Patharpratima – 49.18% |
| Sagar – 44.46% |
| Source: 2005:Rural Household Survey District Human Development Report Chapter 3 Page 43 |
References
- ↑ "District Human Development Report: South 24 Parganas". (1) Chapter 1.2, South 24 Parganas in Historical Perspective, pages 7-9 (2) Chapter 3.4, Land reforms, pages 32-33. Development & Planning Department, Government of West Bengal, 2009. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
- 1 2 3 "Mathurapur I Block". onefivenine. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ↑ "South 24 Parganas". CD Block/Tehsil map. Maps of India. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- 1 2 3 "District Statistical Handbook – 2009 – South 24 Parganas" (PDF). South 24 Parganas at a glance, Tables 2.1, 2.2, 2.4 (b), 4.5. Bureau of Applied Economics and Statistics, Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
- ↑ "District Human Development Report: South 24 Parganas". Chapter 9: Sundarbans and the Remote Islanders, p 290-311. Development & Planning Department, Government of West Bengal, 2009. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
- ↑ "Blocks and Gram Panchayats in South 24 Parganas". South 24 Parganas District Administration. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 "C.D. Block Wise Primary Census Abstract Data(PCA)". 2011 census: West Bengal – District-wise CD Blocks. Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ↑ "Provisional Population Totals, West Bengal. Table 4". Census of India 2001 – South 24 Parganas. Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
- ↑ "Provisional Population Totals, West Bengal. Table 4". Census of India 2001. Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
- ↑ "District Census 2011". Population Census 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- 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.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "District Human Development Report: South 24 Parganas". Intro: pp 16-19, 42 Block specific: pp 39-40, 73, 99, 132, 146, 192, 221. Development & Planning Department, Government of West Bengal, 2009. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
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