Alipur is a

census town In India and some other countries, a census town is designated as a town that satisfies certain characteristics. India In India, a census town is one which is not statutorily notified and administered as a town, but nevertheless whose population ...

Kaliachak I Kaliachak I is a Community development block in India, community development block that forms an administrative division in Malda Sadar subdivision of Malda district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of West Bengal. History Gau ...

CD Block of

Malda Sadar subdivision Malda Sadar subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the Malda district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of West Bengal. Geography Malda Sadar subdivision covers both the Barind Tract and the Diara, two of the three ph ...

Malda district Malda district, also spelt Maldah or Maldaha (, , often ), is a district in West Bengal, India. The capital of the Bengal Sultanate, Gauda and Pandua, was situated in this district. Mango, jute and silk are the most notable products of this ...

in the

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n state of

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Geography

Location

Alipur is located by the coordinate According to the map of Kaliachak CD block in the ''District Census Handbook, Maldah'', 2011, Silampur, Baliadanga, Alipur and

Karari Chandpur Karari Chandpur is a census town in the Kaliachak I CD block in the Malda Sadar subdivision of Malda district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Karari Chandpur is located at . According to the map of Kaliachak CD ...

form a cluster of census towns.

Area overview

The area shown in the adjoining map is the physiographic sub-region known as the ''diara''. It "is a relatively well drained flat land formed by the

fluvial A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of its course if it ru ...

deposition of newer

alluvium Alluvium (, ) 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. Alluvium is also sometimes called alluvial deposit. Alluvium is ...

." The most note-worthy feature is the Farakka Barrage across the Ganges. The area is a part of the

, which is an overwhelmingly rural region, but the area shown in the map has pockets of

urbanisation Urbanization (or urbanisation in British English) is the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change. It can also ...

with 17 census towns, concentrated mostly in the

CD block. The bank of the

Ganges The Ganges ( ; in India: Ganga, ; in Bangladesh: Padma, ). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international which goes through India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China." is a trans-boundary rive ...

between Bhutni and Panchanandapur (both the places are marked on the map), is the area worst hit by left bank erosion, a major problem in the Malda area. The ruins of Gauda, capital of several empires, is located in this area. Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the area. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census of India, Alipur had a total population of 17,347, of which 8,841 (51%) were males and 8,506 (49%) were females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 2,772. The total number of literate persons in Alipur was 9,362 (64.23% of the population over 6 years).

Infrastructure

According to the ''District Census Handbook, Maldah'', 2011, Alipur covered an area of 1.7073 km². It had 12 km roads with open drains. The protected water-supply involved tap water from treated sources, hand pump. It had 2,767 domestic electric connections. Among the medical facilities it had 5 medicine shops. Among the educational facilities, it had 3 primary schools, 1 middle school, 1 secondary school, 2 senior secondary schools in town. It had 5 non-formal education centres (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan). It produced

beedi A beedi (also spelled bidi or biri) is a thin cigarette or cigar, mini-cigar filled with tobacco flake and commonly wrapped in a tendu (''Diospyros melanoxylon'') or ''Piliostigma racemosum'' leaf tied with a string or adhesive at one end. It ...

, cocoon. It had branch offices of 2 nationalised banks.

References

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