Bahula is located at. The Asansol-Durgapur region is composed of undulating laterite soil. This area lies between two mighty rivers – the Damodar and the Ajay. They flow almost parallel to each other in the region – the average distance between the two rivers is around 30 km. For ages the area was heavily forested and infested with plunderers and marauders. The discovery of coal led to industrialisation of the area and most of the forests have been cleared. Konardihi, Nabgram, Chak Bankola, Sankarpur, Haripur, Bahula, Chhora and Parashkol form a cluster of census towns in the southern portion of Pandabeswar CD block.
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 census towns .
Demographics
According to the 2011 Census of India, Bahula had a total population of 17,510, of which 9,095 were males and 8,415 were females. Population in the age range 0-6 years was 2,202. The total number of literate persons in Bahula was 11,445.
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India census, Bahula had a population of 16,264. Males constitute 55% of the population and females 45%. Bahula has an average literacy rate of 58%, lower than the national average of 59.5%; with 64% of the males and 36% of females literate. 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Infrastructure
According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Bardhaman, Bahula covered an area of 3.59 km2. Among the civic amenities, the protected water-supply involved service reservoir, tap water from treated sources. It had 1,472 domestic electric connections. Among the educational facilities it had were 5 primary schools, 2 middleschools, 1 secondary school, 1 senior secondary school. Among the important commodities it produced were coal, paddy and cement.
Economy
This is a coal mining area. Bahula is part of Kenda Area of Eastern Coalfields Limited, a subsidiary of Coal India Limited. The area has been facing the problem of land subsidence. There are some engineering workshops at Bahula. According to the ECL website telephone numbers, operational collieries in the Kenda Area of Eastern Coalfields in 2018 are: Bahula Colliery, Chora Block Incline, CI Jambad Colliery, Chora OCP, Haripur Colliery, Lower Kenda Colliery, New Kenda Colliery, Siduli Colliery, SK OCP and West Kenda OCP.
The Regional Hospital of Eastern Coalfields is located at Bahula. Medical facilities in the Kenda Area of ECL are available at Chhora Regional Hospital , New Kenda, Lower Kenda, Bahula, CI Jambad, Siduli, Haripur, CBI, Chora Group pits.
