Kotulpur is a village in the

Kotulpur Kotulpur is a village in the Kotulpur CD block in the Bishnupur subdivision of the Bankura district in the state of West Bengal, India. Etymology Kotlu Khan of Gar Mandaran, then capital of the local kingdom, was killed in a war, in the Mughal ...

CD block in the

Bishnupur subdivision Bishnupur subdivision is a subdivision of the Bankura district in the state of West Bengal, India. Subdivisions Bankura district is divided into the following administrative subdivisions: Bishnupur subdivision has a density of population of 5 ...

of the

Bankura district Bankura district (Pron: bãkuɽa) is an administrative unit in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is part of Medinipur division—one of the five administrative divisions of West Bengal. Bankura district is surrounded by Purba Bardhaman distri ...

in the state of

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India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

Etymology

Kotlu Khan of

Gar Mandaran Gar Mandaran (গড় মান্দারন) is a village and a gram panchayat in the Goghat II CD block in the Arambag subdivision of the Hooghly district in the state of West Bengal, India. Overview The ruins of a fort at Gar Mandar ...

, then capital of the local kingdom, was killed in a war, in the Mughal era. Kotulpur was named after him.

Geography

Location

Kotulpur is located at

Area overview

The map alongside shows the Bishnupur subdivision of Bankura district. Physiographically, this area has fertile low lying

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 ...

plains. It is a predominantly rural area with 90.06% of the population living in rural areas and only 8.94% living in the urban areas. It was a part of the core area of

Mallabhum Mallabhum (The Country originally known as Mallabhoom or Mallabani bn, মল্লভূম or Bishnupur kingdom ) was the kingdom ruled by the Malla kings of Bishnupur, primarily in the present Bankura district in Indian state of West Beng ...

. 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

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 ...

, Kotulpur had a total population of 8,483, of which 4,280 (50%) were males and 4,203 (50%) were females. Population below 6 years was 759. The total number of literates in Kotulpur was 6,653 (86.13% of the population over 6 years).

Civic administration

Police station

Kotulpur police station has jurisdiction over

CD block. The area covered is 250.50 km² with a population of 167,547.

CD block HQ

The headquarters of Kotulpur CD block are located at Kotulpur.

Infrastructure

According to the ''District Census Handbook 2011, Bankura'', Kotulpur covered an area of 5.6454 km². Among the civic amenities, the protected water supply involved tap water from un-treated sources, hand pumps. It had 790 domestic electric connections. Among the medical facilities it had 1 hospital, 11 medicine shops. Among the educational facilities it had were 7 primary schools, 2 middle schools, 2 secondary schools, 2 senior secondary schools, the nearest general degree college at Chatra 13 km away.

Transport

State Highway 2 running from Khatra to Malancha (in North 24 Parganas district) passes through Kotulpur. A well connected bus services available from Kotulpur. Various long-distance bus routes like Tarakeswar - Bankura, Tarakeswar - Khatra, Arambagh - Purulia, Kolkata - Bishnupur, Chuchura - Bankura, Kotulpur - Durgapur, Kotulpur - Namkhana etc. present now, beside this local busses available for Jairambati, Indas, Arambagh, Kamarpukur, Bishnupur, Badanganj etc.

Education

Kotulpur High School is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1891. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. The school has 12 computers, a library with 1,000 books and a playground. Kotulpur Sarojbasini Balika Vidyalaya is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1965. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. The school has 5 computers, a library with 2,350 books and a playground.

Chatra Ramai Pandit Mahavidyalaya Chatra Ramai Pandit Mahavidyalaya is a general degree college in Chatra, PO Darapur, Kotulpur Block, Bankura district, India, established in 2000. The college offers undergraduate courses in arts and sciences. It is affiliated to Bankura ...

, was established at

Chatra Chatra is the headquarters of Chatra district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. History Chatra was the “headquarters” of Ramgarh district in the 18th-19th century. The renowned reformer, Raja Rammohan Roy, was ''sheristadar'' in Ramgarh di ...

, PO Darapur in 2000.

Healthcare

Kotulpur Rural Hospital, with 60 beds at Kotulpur, is the major government medical facility in the Kotulpur CD block. There are primary health centres at Gopinathpur (with 6 beds), Lego (with 10 beds), Laugram Karakheria (with 10 beds), Sihar (with 10 beds), Mirjapur (with 4 beds) and Deshra (Deopara) (with 10 beds). also a multi-speciality hospital is located inside this town.

References

{{Bankura District Cities and towns in Bankura district