Jalchak is a village in the

Pingla Pingla is a village in the Pingla CD block in the Kharagpur subdivision of the Paschim Medinipur district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Pingla is located at . Area overview Kharagpur subdivision, shown partly in the ...

CD block in the

Kharagpur subdivision Kharagpur subdivision is an administrative subdivision of Paschim Medinipur district in the state of West Bengal, India. Subdivisions Paschim Medinipur district is divided into the following administrative subdivisions, after separation of Jhar ...

of the

Paschim Medinipur district Paschim Medinipur district or West Midnapore district (also known as Midnapore West) is one of the districts of the state of West Bengal, India. It was formed on 1 January 2002 after the Partition of Midnapore into Paschim Medinipur and Purba M ...

in the state of

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...

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Geography

Location

Jalchak is located at .

Area overview

Kharagpur subdivision, shown partly in the map alongside, mostly has

alluvial Alluvium (from Latin ''alluvius'', from ''alluere'' 'to wash against') is loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach, or in similar settings. Alluv ...

soils, except in two CD blocks in the west – Kharagpur I and Keshiary, which mostly have

lateritic Laterite is both a soil and a rock type rich in iron and aluminium and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration, because of high iron oxide content. They develop by ...

soils. Around 74% of the total cultivated area is cropped more than once. With a density of population of 787 per km²nearly half of the district's population resides in this subdivision. 14.33% of the population lives in urban areas and 86.67% lives in the rural areas. 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

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 ...

, Jalchak had a total population of 6,793, of which 3,620 (53%) were males and 3,173 (47%) were females. There were 825 persons in the age range of 0–6 years. The total number of literate persons in Jalchak was 5,049 (84.60% of the population over 6 years).

Education

Jalchak Nateswari Netaji Vidyayatan is a Bengali-medium co-educational institution established in 1949. The school has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. It has a library with 4,000 books, 10 computers and a playground.

Culture

David J. McCutchion mentions the Ramchandra temple of Bhattacharya family as a pancha ratna having rekha turrets with curved cornices and

porch A porch (from Old French ''porche'', from Latin ''porticus'' "colonnade", from ''porta'' "passage") is a room or gallery located in front of an entrance of a building. A porch is placed in front of the facade of a building it commands, and form ...

on three arches, richly terracotta decorated, built in 1817, measuring 18’ 2” square.

Jalchak picture gallery

File:Pancha Ratna Ram Chandra temple of Bhattacharya family at Jalchak under Paschim Medinipur district in West Bengal 09.jpg, ''Pancha-ratna'' Ram Chandra temple in a perilous condition File:Pancha Ratna Ram Chandra temple of Bhattacharya family at Jalchak under Paschim Medinipur district in West Bengal 03.jpg, Ram Chandra temple File:Pancha Ratna Ram Chandra temple of Bhattacharya family at Jalchak under Paschim Medinipur district in West Bengal 04.jpg, Ram Chandra temple has exquisite terracotta work File:Pancha Ratna Ram Chandra temple of Bhattacharya family at Jalchak under Paschim Medinipur district in West Bengal 10.jpg, Terracotta panels File:Pancha Ratna Radha Krishna temple at Jalchak under Paschim Medinipur district in West Bengal 01.jpg, ''Pancha-ratna'' Radha Krishna temple in perilous condition File:Pancha Ratna Radha Krishna temple at Jalchak under Paschim Medinipur district in West Bengal 03.jpg, The deity in the

garbhagriha A ''garbhagriha'' or ''sannidhanam'' is the ''sanctum sanctorum'', the innermost sanctuary of a Hindu and Jain temples where resides the ''murti'' (idol or icon) of the primary deity of the temple. In Jainism, the main deity is known as the ''M ...

File:Pancha Ratna Radha Krishna temple at Jalchak under Paschim Medinipur district in West Bengal 11.jpg, Terracotta panel