Chandpur is a

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and a

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within the jurisdiction of the

Mandirbazar Mandirbazar 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. Geography Mandirbazar CD block is located at . It has an avera ...

police station in the

CD block in the

Diamond Harbour subdivision Diamond Harbour 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: 26.04% of the total pop ...

of the

South 24 Parganas South 24 Parganas (Pron: pɔrɡɔnɔs; abbr. 24 PGS (S)), or sometimes South Twenty Four Parganas and Dakshin 24 Parganas, is a district in the Indian state of West Bengal, headquartered in Alipore. It is the largest district of West Bengal by ...

district in the

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Geography

Area overview

Diamond Harbour subdivision is a rural subdivision with patches of urbanization. Only 14.61% of the population lives in the urban areas and an overwhelming 85.39% lives in the rural areas. In the eastern portion of the subdivision (shown in the map alongside) there are 24

s. The entire district is situated in the Ganges Delta and the eastern part of the district is a flat plain area with small towns, many in clusters. Location of places in the larger map varies a little. It is an OpenStreetMap, while we are using coordinates as in Google Maps. 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

Chandpur is located at

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 ...

, Chandpur had a total population of 6,777 of which 3,533 (52%) were males and 3,244 (48%) were females. There were 990 persons in the age range of 0–6 years. The total number of literate persons in Chandpur was 4,679 (80.85% of the population over 6 years).

Infrastructure

According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Chandpur covered an area of 3.9821 km². Among the physical aspects, there is a railway station at Mathurapur 4.5 km away. Among the civic amenities, the protected water supply involved hand pumps, tanks, ponds, lakes. It had 328 domestic electric connections. Among the medical facilities, it had 1 dispensary/ health centre. Among the educational facilities it had were 4 primary schools, the nearest higher school facilities being at Jagdishpur 3 km away. Among the social, recreational and cultural facilities it had 1 orphanage. An important commodity it produced was

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items. It had the branches of 1 nationalised bank and 1 agricultural credit society.

Transport

A short stretch of local roads link Chandpur to the

State Highway 1 The following highways are numbered 1. For roads numbered A1, see list of A1 roads. For roads numbered B1, see list of B1 roads. For roads numbered M1, see List of M1 roads. For roads numbered N1, see list of N1 roads. For roads numbere ...

.Google maps Mathurapur Road railway station is located nearby.

Healthcare

Naiyarat Rural Hospital at Naiyarat, with 30 beds, is the major government medical facility in the Mandirbazar CD block.

References

Cities and towns in South 24 Parganas district {{South24Parganas-geo-stub