Gangarampur subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the

Dakshin Dinajpur district Dakshin Dinajpur () or South Dinajpur is a district in the Indian state of West Bengal, India. It was created on 1 April 1992 by the division of the erstwhile West Dinajpur District. The Headquarter (sadar) of the district is at Balurghat. It ...

in the

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Subdivisions

Dakshin Dinajpur district is divided into two administrative subdivisions: .*2011

Administrative units

Gangarampur subdivision has 4 police stations, 4 community development blocks, 4 panchayat samitis, 30

gram panchayat Gram Panchayat () is a basic village-governing institute in Indian villages. It is a democratic structure at the grass-roots level in India. It is a political institute, acting as cabinet of the village. The Gram Sabha work as the general bo ...

s, 750 mouzas, 730 inhabited villages, 2

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and 2 census towns. The municipalities are at

Gangarampur Gangarampur is one of the cities and a municipality in Dakshin Dinajpur district in the state of West Bengal, India. Buniadpur is the headquarters of the Gangarampur subdivision. The city is located on the bank of river Punarbhaba. Gangarampur ...

and

Buniadpur Buniadpur is a City and a Municipality in North Bengal in the Dakshin Dinajpur district, West Bengal, India. Geography Location The municipality is located at the coordinates . It is divided into 14 wards. In the map alongside, all places m ...

. The census towns are: Gopalpur and Harirampur. The subdivision has its headquarters at Buniadpur.

Police stations

Police stations in Balurghat subdivision have the following features and jurisdiction:

Blocks

Community development blocks in Balurghat subdivision are:

Gram panchayats

The subdivision contains 30

s under 4 community development blocks: *

block consists of 11 gram panchayats, viz. Ashokegram, Belbari–II, Gangarampur, Sukdevpur, Basuria, Chaloon, Jahangirpur, Uday, Belbari–I, Damdama and 4no.Nandanpur. * Banshihari block consists of 4 gram panchayats, viz. Ellahabad, Ganguria, Brajaballavpur and Mahabari. * Harirampur block consists of 6 gram panchayats, viz. Bagichapur, Gokarna, Saiyadpur, Bairhatta, Pundari and Shirshi. * Kushmandi block consists of 8 gram panchayats, viz. Akcha, Deul, Karanji, Maligaon, Beroil, Kalikamora, Kushmandi and Udaypur.

Education

Dakshin Dinajpur district had a literacy rate of 72.82% (for population of 7 years and above) as per the census of India 2011. Balurghat subdivision had a literacy rate of 75.78%, Gangarampur subdivision 69.24%. Given in the table below (data in numbers) is a comprehensive picture of the education scenario in Dakshin district for the year 2013-14: Note: Primary schools include junior basic schools; middle schools, high schools and higher secondary schools include madrasahs; technical schools include junior technical schools, junior government polytechnics, industrial technical institutes, industrial training centres, nursing training institutes etc.; technical and professional colleges include engineering colleges, medical colleges, para-medical institutes, management colleges, teachers training and nursing training colleges, law colleges, art colleges, music colleges etc. Special and non-formal education centres include sishu siksha kendras, madhyamik siksha kendras, centres of Rabindra mukta vidyalaya, recognised Sanskrit tols, institutions for the blind and other handicapped persons, Anganwadi centres, reformatory schools etc. The following institutions are in Gangarampur subdivision: Gangarampur College was established in 1981 at

Buniadpur Mahavidyalaya Buniadpur Mahavidyalaya is a college in Buniadpur in Dakshin Dinajpur District in North Bengal of West Bengal, India. The college is affiliated to University of Gour Banga, offering Undergraduate Undergraduate education is education cond ...

was established at

in 2007. Dewan Abdul Gani College was established at Harirampur in 1994.

Kushmandi Government College Kushmandi Government College, established in 2015, is the government degree college in Kushmandi, Dakshin Dinajpur district. It offers undergraduate courses in arts. It is affiliated to University of Gour Banga University of Gour Banga ...

was established at Kushmandi in 2015.

Healthcare

The table below (all data in numbers) presents an overview of the medical facilities available and patients treated in the hospitals, health centres and sub-centres in 2014 in Dakshin Dinajpur district. .* Excluding nursing homes Medical facilities available in Gangarampur subdivision are as follows: Hospitals: (Name, location, beds)
Gangarampur subdivisional hospital,

, 250 beds
Rural Hospitals: (Name, block, location, beds)
Harirampur Rural Hospital, Harirampur CD Block, Harirampur, 30 beds
Rashidpur Rural Hospital, Bansihari CD Block, Rashidpur, 30 beds
Kushmandi Rural Hospital, Kushmandi CD Block,

Kushmandi, Dakshin Dinajpur Kushmandi (also referred to as Kushmundi) is a village in Kushmandi CD Block in Gangarampur subdivision of Dakshin Dinajpur district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Kushmandi is located at In the map alongside, all pl ...

, 30 beds
Block Primary Health Centre: (Name, location, beds)
Mathurapur (Chalon) BPHC, Gangarampur CD Block, PO Bansagar, 10 beds
Primary Health Centres: (CD Block-wise)(CD Block, PHC location, beds)
Gangarampur CD Block: Sarbamangala (Sarbamangala (Bansuria) PHC) (10)
Harirampur CD Block: Balihara (10)
Bansihari CD Block: Badalpur (10)
Kushmandi CD Block: Sehail (Nanaharpara PHC) (10), Aminpur (10)

Electoral constituencies

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(parliamentary) and

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(state assembly) constituencies in Gangarampur subdivision were as follows:

References

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