Kamarda is a village, in
Khejuri I
Khejuri I is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Contai subdivision of Purba Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Geography
Purba Medinipur district is part of the lower Indo-Gangetic Plain ...
CD block in
Contai subdivision
Contai Subdivision is a subdivision of the Purba Medinipur district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Subdivisions
Purba Medinipur district is divided into the following administrative subdivisions:
Administrative units
Contai subdivisio ...
of
Purba Medinipur district
Purba Medinipur (English: ''East Medinipur'', alternative spelling ''Midnapore'') district is an administrative unit in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the southernmost district of Medinipur division – one of the five administrative d ...
in the state of
West Bengal
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,
India
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Geography
CD block HQ
The headquarters of Khejuri I CD block are located at Kamarda.
Urbanisation
93.55% of the population of Contai subdivision live in the rural areas. Only 6.45% of the population live in the urban areas and it is considerably behind Haldia subdivision in urbanization, where 20.81% of the population live in urban 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
As per
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 ...
Kamarda had a total population of 11,658 of which 6,023 (52%) were males and 5,635 (48%) were females. Population below 6 years was 1,602. The total number of literates in Kamarda was 8,648 (86.00% of the population over 6 years).
Transport
The nearest railway station is at Nachinda on the
Panskura-Digha branch line.
National Highway 116B (locally popular as Contai-Digha Highway) passes nearby.
Education
Kamarda High School is a Bengali-medium co-educational higher secondary school. It was established in 1921 and has arrangements for teaching from class V to XII. It has a library with 2,500 books and a play ground.
Healthcare
Kamarda Block Primary Health Centre at Kamarda Bazar (with 15 beds) is the main medical facility in Khejuri I CD block. There is a
primary health centre at Heria (with 10 beds).
References
{{Purba Medinipur District
Villages in Purba Medinipur district