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Bilpahari is a census town in the Pandabeswar CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Geography
Location
Mahal, Baidyanathpur, Dalurband, Ramnagar, Bilpahari and Kendra Khottamdi form a cluster of census towns in the northern portion of Pandabeswar CD block.[1]
Urbanisation
According to the 2011 census, 79.22% of the population of the Durgapur subdivision was urban and 20.78% was rural. The Durgapur subdivision has 1 municipal corporation at Durgapur and 38 (+1 partly) census towns (partly presented in the map alongside; all places marked on the map are linked in the full-screen map).[2]
Demographics
According to the 2011 Census of India, Bilpahari had a total population of 8,565, of which 4,519 (53%) were males and 4,046 (47%) were females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 1,038. The total number of literate persons in Bilpahari was 5,623 (74.70% of the population over 6 years).[3]
*For language details see Pandabeswar (community development block)#Language and religion
Template:As of India census,[4] Bilpahari had a population of 7,786. Males constitute 55% of the population and females 45%. Bilpahari has an average literacy rate of 53%, lower than the national average of 59.5%; with male literacy of 62% and female literacy of 42%. 15% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Infrastructure
According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Bardhaman, Bilpahari covered an area of 4.08 km2. Among the civic amenities, the protected water-supply involved service reservoir, tap water from treated sources, uncovered wells. It had 740 domestic electric connections. Among the educational facilities it had were 5 primary schools, the nearest senior secondary school, at Kendra 3 km away. Among the important commodities it produced were paddy, coal, earthen pots.[5]
Economy
Collieries in the Pandaveswar Area of Eastern Coalfields are: Madaipur, Maderboni, Nutandanga, Pandaveswar, Dalurbandh, Kendra, Samla, South Samla, Khottadih, Kankartala, Dalurbandh OCP, Palasthali OCP and Gangaramchak OCP.[6]
Education
Bilpahari has one primary school.[7]
References
- ↑ District Census Handbook Bardhaman, Series 20, Part XII A, Census of India 2011. Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal.
- ↑ District Statistical Handbook 2014 Burdwan. Department of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of West Bengal.
- ↑ 2011 Census – Primary Census Abstract Data Tables. Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India.
- ↑ Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional). Census Commission of India.
- ↑ District Census Handbook Barddhaman, Census of India 2011, Series 20, Part XII A. Directorate of census Operations V, West Bengal.
- ↑ Coalmining impact on the Environment. shodganga.infibnet.
- ↑ 7th All-India School Education Survey 2003 Template:Webarchive