Ramchandrapur is a

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within the jurisdiction of the

Sonarpur Rajpur Sonarpur () is a city and a municipality of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). Rajpur and Sonarpur are two separat ...

police station in the

CD block in the

Baruipur subdivision Baruipur subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Subdivisions South 24 Parganas district is divided into five administrative subdivisions: 29.36% of the total populatio ...

of the

South 24 Parganas South 24 Parganas (Pron: pɔrɡɔnɔs; abbr. 24 PGS (S)), or sometimes South Twenty Four Parganas and Dakshin 24 Parganas, is a district in the Indian state of West Bengal, headquartered in Alipore. It is the largest district of West Bengal by ...

district in the

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Geography

Area overview

Baruipur subdivision is a rural subdivision with moderate levels of urbanization. 31.05% of the population lives in the urban areas and 68.95% lives in the rural areas. In the northern portion of the subdivision (shown in the map alongside) there are 10

s. The entire district is situated in the Ganges Delta and the northern part of the subdivision is a flat plain bordering the metropolis of

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

. 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.

Location

Ramchandrapur is located at . It has an average elevation of .

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and Ramchndrapur are adjacent to

Rajpur Sonarpur Rajpur Sonarpur () is a city and a municipality of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). Rajpur and Sonarpur are two separat ...

city on its south-eastern side, as per the map of the Sonarpur CD block in the District Census Handbook for the South 24 Parganas.

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 ...

, Ramchandrapur had a total population of 8,196, of which 4,188 (51%) were males and 4,008 (49%) were females. There were 700 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate persons in Ramchandrapur was 6,674 (91.70% of the population over 6 years).

Infrastructure

According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Ramchandrapur covered an area of 1.612 km².

Sonarpur Junction railway station Sonarpur Junction railway station is a Kolkata Suburban Railway Junction station on the main line with an approximate distance from the Sealdah railway station. It is under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Railway zone of Indian Railways. S ...

is 5 km away. Among the civic amenities, it had 5 km roads with both open and covered drains, the protected water supply involved service reservoir. It had 850 domestic electric connections and 75 road light points. Among the educational facilities it had were 2 primary schools, the nearest secondary school and senior secondary school were at Sreepur 1 km away, the nearest general degree college was at

Garia Garia ( Bengali:গড়িয়া) is a neighborhood in southern Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Jadavpur in the north, Bansdroni/Tollygunge in the north-west, Santoshpur/ Mukundapur in the north-east a ...

5 km away. Among the commodities it produced were bakery products and batteries.

Transport

A short stretch of local roads link Ramchandrapur to the

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is located nearby.

Education

Sonarpur Mahavidyalaya was established in 1985, at

. Jagaddal Colony High School is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1969. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class X.

Healthcare

Sonarpur Rural Hospital, with 25 beds, at

, is the major government medical facility in the Sonarpur CD block.

References

Cities and towns in South 24 Parganas district Neighbourhoods in Kolkata Kolkata Metropolitan Area {{South24Parganas-geo-stub