Parangarpar is a
census town in the
Falakata
Falakata is a city and a municipality, lying near Jaldhaka River in the Alipurduar subdivision of the Alipurduar district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Geography
Location
Falakata is located at It has an average elevation of 88 m ...
CD block in the
Alipurduar subdivision of the
Alipurduar district
Alipurduar is a city and a municipality in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Alipurduar district. Situated on the east bank of Kaljani River on the foothills of the Himalayas, the city is a gateway to Bhutan and ...
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 fou ...
,
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 ...
.
Geography
Location
Parangarpar 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
Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the very highest, Mount Everest. Over 10 ...
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.
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 ...
, Parangarpar had a total population of 11,408. There were 5,930 (52%) males and 5,478 (48%) females. There were 1,084 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Parangarpar was 8.750 (84.75% of the population over 6 years).
Infrastructure
According to the ''District Census Handbook 2011, Jalpaiguri'', Parangarpar covered an area of 5.7041 km
2. Among the civic amenities, it had 23 km roads, with open drains, the protected water supply involved tap water from treated sources, uncovered wells. It had 1,661 domestic electric connections, 175 road lighting points. Among the medical facilities it had 1 dispensary/ health centre, 1 family welfare centre, 1 maternity and child welfare centre, 1 maternity home, 1 veterinary hospital, 10 medicine shops. Among the educational facilities it had 7 primary schools, 3 middle schools, 2 secondary schools, 2 senior secondary schools. It had 1 recognised shorthand, typewriting and vocational training centre, 5 non-formal education centres (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan), 1 orphanage home. Three important commodities it produced were: ply wood, wooden furniture, jute choir. It had branches of 1 nationalised bank, 2 cooperative banks.
References
Cities and towns in Alipurduar district
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