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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Jejur
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| subdivision_name2 = [[Hooghly District|Hooghly]]
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| postal_code = 712405
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'''Jejur''' is a [[gram panchayat]] under [[Haripal (community development block)|Haripal]] block in [[Chandannagar]] subdivision of [[Hooghly District|Hooghly district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].

==Geography==
Jejur is located at {{Coord|22.88|N|88.12|E|}}.

Jejur gram panchayat is composed of the following villages: Rajaballabhbati, Mannapara, Purbba Narayanpur, Kankrajol, Amgachhi, Jejur, Jinpur, Raghunathpur,
Kalachhara and Meshera.<ref name=Haripal>{{cite web | url =http://www.wbphed.gov.in/applications/Phedweb/Block2Villpdf.php?State_Cd=19&Dist_Cd=12&Blk_Cd=0011 | title =Census Data District Name: Hugli(12) Block Name: Haripal (0011) | publisher =West Bengal Govt | access-date = 2009-01-21}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

==Demographics==
As per [[2011 Census of India]] Jejur had a total population of 5,173 of which 2,579 (50%) were males and 2,594 (50%) were females. Population below 6 years was 523. The total number of literates in Jejur was 3,703 (79.63% of the population over 6 years).<ref name=census2011>{{cite web| url = http://censusindia.gov.in/pca/cdb_pca_census/Houselisting-housing-WB.html |title = C.D. Block Wise Primary Census Abstract Data(PCA) | work= 2011 census: West Bengal – District-wise CD Blocks|publisher= Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India | access-date = 10 June 2016}}</ref>

==Economy==
===Agriculture===
This is a rich agricultural area. Though rice is the prime crop of the district, the agricultural economy largely depends on potato, jute, vegetables and orchard products. Vegetable is a prize crop in the blocks of Haripal, Singur, Chanditala, Polba and Dhaniakhali being grown in a relay system throughout the year. Though potato is cultivated in all the blocks of this district Dhaniakhali, Arambagh, Goghat, Pursurah, Haripal, Polba-Dadpur, Tarakeswar, Pandua and Singur contributed much of its production of this district.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://hooghly.nic.in/AGRI-INTEN.HTM| title=Intensive cropping with remarkable feature of Hooghly District| access-date=2009-01-28| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716220215/http://hooghly.nic.in/AGRI-INTEN.HTM| archive-date=2011-07-16}}</ref>

Some of the primary and other ''hats'' or markets in the Haripal block area are: Basudevpur hat, Bondipur hat, Dar hatta hat, Jejur Daily Market, Kaikala hat, Kalchara hat, Nalikul hat, Sipaigachi hat, Jagin market, Haripal Barabazar and Haripal Station Bazar.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://wbagrimarketingboard.gov.in/bazar/hooghly.html | title = Primary Hats/Markets of District | publisher = West Bengal State Marketing Board | work = Hooghly | access-date = 2009-01-29 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090707074955/http://wbagrimarketingboard.gov.in/bazar/hooghly.html | archive-date = 2009-07-07 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

==People==
[[Atulya Ghosh]], freedom fighter and once the strongman of the Congress Party, was born at Jejur on 28 August 1904.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?date=2004-08-15&usrsess=1344163791769&clid=4&id=79542 |title=A much maligned man |access-date=2009-01-21 |last=Sengupta |first=Sukharanjan |work=Tribute to Atulya Ghosh, the forgotten freedom fighter |publisher=The Statesman 15 August 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929123809/http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?date=2004-08-15&usrsess=1344163791769&clid=4&id=79542 |archive-date=29 September 2007 }}</ref>
Also, Shree Bijoy Krishna Mitra is a prominent figure from Jejur who traversed all over the country and contributed immensely to the infrastructure building of the nation along with his village development. His long association with HCC has been well recognised.

==Education==
Jajur High School is a boys only higher secondary school. It has arrangements for teaching Bengali, English, Sanskrit, history, philosophy, political science, economics and mathematics.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://wbchse.nic.in/admin/Hooghly_school_list.php?page=16&| title = Hooghly district exam venue | publisher = West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education |access-date = 6 October 2018}}</ref>

Jajur Karunamoyee Mukhopadhyay Balika Vidyalaya is a girls only secondary school with arrangements for teaching from Class VI to X. It was established in 1959.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.studyapt.com/school-jajur-k-m-balika-vidyamandir-hugli| title = Jajur Karunamoyee Mukhopadhyay Balika Vidyalaya | publisher = Studyapt |access-date = 6 October 2018}}</ref>

==Transport==
===Bus===
====Private Bus====
* 18 [[Haripal railway station]] - [[Chunchura]] Court
* 18A [[Haripal railway station]] - Dasghara
====Bus Routes Without Numbers====
* [[Jangipara]] - [[Chunchura]] Court
===Train===
The nearest railway station, [[Haripal railway station]], is about {{convert|10|km}} away.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Hooghly District}}

[[Category:Villages in Hooghly district]]

Jejur - Revision history

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