Barasat II

Barasat II is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Barasat Sadar subdivision of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Geography

Rohanda, a constituent panchayat of Barasat II block, is located at .

Barasat II CD Block is bounded by Barasat I CD Block in the north, Deganga and Haroa CD Blocks in the west and Rajarhat CD Block in the south. The Barrackpore industrial area with such municipalities as Madhyamgram, Dum Dum and Rajarhat-Gopalpur (now merged with Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation) is in the west and Barasat municipality is in the north.

Barasat II CD Block is part of the North Hooghly Flat, one of the three physiographic regions in the district located in the lower Ganges Delta. It is a raised alluvium area along the Hooghly, which forms the western boundary of the district. The Bidyadhari forms the eastern boundary of Barasat II CD Block with Deganga CD Block, and as such it is partly in the North Bidyadhari Plain.

Barasat II CD Block has an area of 114.04 km². It has 1 panchayat samity, 7 gram panchayats, 109 gram sansads (village councils), 78 mouzas and 77 inhabited villages, as per the District Statistical Handbook: North 24 Parganas. Madhyamgram and Shasan police stations serve this block. Headquarters of this CD Block is at Krishnapur Madanpur.

Gram panchayats of Barasat II block/ panchayat samiti are: Chandigarh–Rohanda, Falti Beliaghata, Kemia Khamarpara, Kirtipur I, Dadpur, Kiritipur II and Shason.

Demographics

Population

As per 2011 Census of India Barasat II CD Block had a total population of 200,918, of which 188,294 were rural and 11,994 were urban. There were 104,253 (52%) males and 96,665 (48%) females. Population below 6 years was 26,305. Scheduled Castes numbered 21,025 (10.47%) and Scheduled Tribes numbered 2,556 (1.27%).

As per 2001 census, Barasat II block has a total population of 168,828 out of which 87,997 were males and 80,831 were females.

There is only one census town in Barasat II CD Block (2011 census figure in brackets): Deara (11,994).

Large villages in Barasat II CD Block (2011 census figures in brackets): Gopalpur Chandigar (7,204), Jojra (4,052), Kayemba (4,687), Chaumuha (4,780), Matiagachha (8,223), Mahishgadi (6,468), Sasan (5,818) and Falti-Banpur (6,418).

North 24 Parganas district is densely populated, mainly because of the influx of refugees from East Bengal (later Bangladesh). With a density of population of 2,182 per km² in 1971, it was 3rd in terms of density per km² in West Bengal after Kolkata and Howrah, and 20th in India. According to the District Human Development Report: North 24 Parganas, “High density is also explained partly by the rapid growth of urbanization in the district. In 1991, the percentage of urban population in the district has been 51.23.”

Decadal Population Growth Rate (%)

The decadal growth of population in Barasat II CD Block in 2001-2011 was 18.82%. The decadal growth of population in Barasat II CD Block in 1991-2001 was -29.45%. Decadal growth of population in Barasat municipality in 1991-2001 was 125.52%.

The decadal growth rate of population in North 24 Parganas district was as follows: 47.9% in 1951-61, 34.5% in 1961-71, 31.4% in 1971-81, 31.7% in 1981-91, 22.7% in 1991-2001 and 12.0% in 2001-11. The decadal growth rate for West Bengal in 2001-11 was 13.93%. The decadal growth rate for West Bengal was 17.84% in 1991-2001, 24.73% in 1981-1991 and 23.17% in 1971-1981.

Only a small portion of the border with Bangladesh has been fenced and it is popularly referred to as a porous border. It is freely used by Bangladeshi infiltrators, terrorists, smugglers, criminals et al.

Literacy

As per the 2011 census, the total number of literates in Barasat II CD Block was 135,695 (77.71% of the population over 6 years) out of which males numbered 74,011 (81.50% of the male population over 6 years) and females numbered 61,684 (73.60% of the female population over 6 years). The gender disparity (the difference between female and male literacy rates) was 7.90%.

See also – List of West Bengal districts ranked by literacy rate

Language and religion

As per census definition, mother-tongue is the language spoken in childhood by the person's mother to the person. As a mother-tongue, Bengali has decreased its share from 91.3% of the population of North Twenty Four Parganas district in 1961 to 87.9% in 2001, Hindi has increased its share from 5.0% in 1961 to 8.3% in 2001, Urdu