Bidyadharpur is a census town within the jurisdiction of the Sonarpur police station in the Sonarpur CD block in the

Baruipur subdivision Baruipur subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Subdivisions South 24 Parganas district is divided into five administrative subdivisions: 29.36% of the total populati ...

of the South 24 Parganas district in the

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Geography

Area overview

Baruipur subdivision is a rural subdivision with moderate levels of urbanization. 31.05% of the population lives in the urban areas and 68.95% lives in the rural areas. In the northern portion of the subdivision (shown in the map alongside) there are 10 census towns. The entire district is situated in the Ganges Delta and the northern part of the subdivision is a flat plain bordering the metropolis of

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. Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

Location

Bidyadharpur is located at . It has an average elevation of . Petua, Panchghara, Mallikpur and Hariharpur form a cluster of census towns in the Baruipur CD block, as per the map of the Baruipur CD block in the District Census Handbook for the South 24 Parganas. This cluster has

Rajpur Sonarpur Rajpur Sonarpur () is a city and a municipality of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). Rajpur and Sonarpur are two separat ...

on the east and Bidyadharpur on the north, both in the Sonarpur CD block, as per the map of Sonarpur CD block in the District Census Handbook for the South 24 Parganas.

Demographics

According to the

2011 Census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information ...

, Bidyadharpur had a total population of 4,630, of which 2,327 (50%) were males and 2,303 (50%) were females. There were 549 people in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate persons in Bidyadharpur was 3,040 (74.49% of the population over 6 years).

Infrastructure

According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Bidyadharpur covered an area of 1.1421 km². Among the physical aspects, Bidyadharpur railway station is in the town. Among the civic amenities, the protected water supply involved service reservoir. It had 430 domestic electric connections. Among the medical facilities it had 1 dispensary/ health centre. Among the educational facilities it had were 1 primary school, the nearest middle school at Madgar 1 km away, the nearest secondary school at Malia 1 km away, the nearest senior secondary school at Ghasiara close by.

Transport

Sonarpur-Chak Baria Road links Bidyadharpur to the

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.Google maps Bidyadharpur railway station is on the Sealdah–Canning line of the Kolkata Suburban Railway system.

Commuters

With the electrification of the railways, suburban traffic has grown tremendously since the 1960s. As of 2005–06, more than 1.7 million (17 lakhs) commuters use the Kolkata Suburban Railway system daily. After the partition of India, refugees from erstwhile East Pakistan/ Bangladesh had a strong impact on the development of urban areas in the periphery of Kolkata. The new immigrants depended on Kolkata for their livelihood, thus increasing the number of commuters. Eastern Railway runs 1,272 EMU trains daily.

Education

Ghasiara Bidyapith is a high school.

Healthcare

Sonarpur Rural Hospital, with 25 beds, at

, is the major government medical facility in the Sonarpur CD block.

References

{{South 24 Parganas topics Cities and towns in South 24 Parganas district Neighbourhoods in Kolkata Kolkata Metropolitan Area