Basirhat I

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

Geography

Basirhat is located at .

Basirhat I CD Block is bounded by Baduria CD Block in the north, Satkhira Sadar Upazila and Debhata Upazila in Satkhira District of Bangladesh in the east, Hasnabad, Minakhan and Haroa CD Blocks in the south and Basirhat II CD Block in the west. While Basirhat municipality is in the north-west, Taki municipality is in the south-east.

Basirhat I CD Block is part of the Ichhamati-Raimangal Plain, one of the three physiographic regions in the district located in the lower Ganges Delta. It contains soil of mature black or brownish loam to recent alluvium. The Ichhamati flows through the eastern part of the district. The Ichhamati flows in from the north-western part of the CD Block, cuts across the northern part of the CD Block and then flows along the eastern international boundary with Bangladesh.

Basirhat I CD Block has an area of 111.84 km². It has 1 panchayat samity, 7 gram panchayats, 97 gram sansads (village councils), 63 mouzas and 62 inhabited villages, according to the District Statistical Handbook: North 24 Parganas. Basirhat police station serves this block. Headquarters of this CD Block is at Basirhat.

Gram panchayats of Basirhat I block/ panchayat samiti are: Gachha Akharpur, Itinda Panitor, Pifa, Sankchura Begundi, Gotra, Nimdaria Kodalia and Sangrampur-Shibhati.

Demographics

Population

As per 2011 Census of India Basirhat I CD Block had a total population of 171,613, of which 150,520 were rural and 21,093 were urban. There were 87,717 (51%) males and 83,896 (49%) females. Population below 6 years was 21,094. Scheduled Castes numbered 22,070 (12.86%) and Scheduled Tribes numbered 1,268 (0.74%).

As per 2001 census, Basirhat I block has a total population of 146,836 out of which 75,035 were males and 71,801 were females.

There are three census towns in Basirhat I CD Block (2011 census figures in brackets): Itinda (8,679), Dandirhat (P) (6,387) and Uttar Bagundi (6,027).

Large villages in Basirhat I CD Block (2011 census figures in brackets): Pipha (5,700), Debhog (4,430), Gotra (5,894), Goknashri Gobindapur (4,110), Sangrampur (7,233), Merudandi (4,730), Akharpur (6,204), Gachha (6,489), Panitar (13,947), Hariharpur (4,477) and Kodalia (5,896).

North 24 Parganas district is densely populated, mainly because of the influx of refugees from East Pakistan (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 Basirhat I CD Block in 2001–2011 was 16.16%. The decadal growth of population in Basirhat I CD Block in 1991–2001 was 20.94%.

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.

The decadal growth rate of population in neighbouring Satkhira District in Bangladesh was 6.50% for the decade 2001–2011, down from 16.75% in the decade 1991–2001 and 17.90% in the decade 1981–1991.

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.

See also – Basirhat for information on cattle smuggling and border fencing

Literacy

As per the 2011 census, the total number of literates in Basirhat I CD Block was 108,530 (72.10% of the population over 6 years) out of which males numbered 58,344 (75.86% of the male population over 6 years) and females numbered 50,186 (68.18% of the female population over 6 years). The gender disparity (the difference between female and male literacy rates) was 7.67%.

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

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