Jugijhora Barobak is a

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in the

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CD block in the

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of the

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in the state of

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Geography

Location

Jagijhora Barabak is located at .

Area overview

Alipurduar district is covered by two maps. It is an extensive area in the eastern end of the

Dooars The Dooars or Duars ( as, দুৱাৰ, duar, rkt, দুৱাৰ, duar, bn, দুয়ার, duyar) () are the alluvial floodplains in eastern-northeastern India that lie south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas and north of the ...

in West Bengal. It is undulating country, largely forested, with numerous rivers flowing down from the outer ranges of the

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in Bhutan. It is a predominantly rural area with 79.38% of the population living in the rural areas. The district has 1 municipal town and 20 census towns and that means that 20.62% of the population lives in urban areas. The scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, taken together, form more than half the population in all the six community development blocks in the district. There is a high concentration of tribal people (scheduled tribes) in the three northern blocks of the district. 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.

Demographics

As per 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 ...

, Jagijhora Barabak had a total population of 6,474. There were 3,350 (52%) males and 3,124 (48%) females. There were 908 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Jagijhora Barabak was 3,954 (71.04% of the population over 6 years).

Infrastructure

According to the ''District Census Handbook 2011, Jalpaiguri'', Jagijhora Barabak covered an area of 5.1991 km². Among the civic amenities, it had 30 km roads, the protected water supply involved hand pumps. It had 456 domestic electric connections, 16 road lighting points. Among the medical facilities it had 6 medicine shops. Among the educational facilities it had 8 primary schools, 1 middle school, the nearest secondary school at Narsinpur 3 km away, the nearest senior secondary school at

Birpara Birpara is a census town in Alipurduar I CD block in Alipurduar subdivision of Alipurduar district, West Bengal, India. Geography Location Birpara is located at . Area overview Alipurduar district is covered by two maps. It is an extensi ...

8 km away. It had 1 non-formal education centre (Sarva Siksha Abhiyan). Three important commodities it produced were: bricks, crushed stone and dolomite. It had the branch of a nationalised bank.

References

{{Alipurduar district Cities and towns in Alipurduar district