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Alui is a village in the Ghatal CD block in the Ghatal subdivision of the Paschim Medinipur district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Geography
Location
Alui is located at Template:Coord.
Area overview
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, scholar, social reformer and a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance, was born at Birsingha on 26 September 1820.[1][2]
Ghatal subdivision, shown in the map alongside, has alluvial soils. Around 85% of the total cultivated area is cropped more than once.[3]It has a density of population of 1,099 per km2, but being a small subdivision only a little over a fifth of the people in the district reside in this subdivision. 14.33% of the population lives in urban areas and 86.67% lives in the rural areas.[4]
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 the 2011 Census of India, Alui had a total population of 1,627, of which 825 (51%) were males and 802 (49%) were females. There were 159 persons in the age range of 0–6 years. The total number of literate persons in Uttar Bar was 1,070 (77.89% of the population over 6 years).[5]
Education
Alui High School is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1965. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class X. It has a library with 610 books.[6]
Alui picture gallery
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Naba-ratna temple of Bhuinya family built in 1860 -
Bhuinya family temple -
Terracotta decoration in Bhuinya family temple -
Naba-ratna Sridhara temple of Roy family built in 1880 -
Sridhara temple -
Terracotta decoration
The pictures are a part of Wiki Explores Paschim Medinipur programme, an initiative by West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
References
- ↑ Vidyasagar, Pundit Iswar Chandra, Murshid, Ghulam. Banglapedia.
- ↑ Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. www.whereincity.com.
- ↑ District Human Development Report Paschim Medinipur, 2011. Department of Planning and Statistics, Government of West Bengal.
- ↑ District Statistical Handbook Paschim Medinipur, 2013. Department of Planning and Statistics.
- ↑ CD block Wise Primary Census Abstract Data(PCA). Registrar General and Census, India.
- ↑ Alui Junior High School U. Primary. Schools.org.