Chandpur, Mandirbazar


Chandpur is a census town and a gram panchayat within the jurisdiction of the Mandirbazar police station in the Mandirbazar CD block in the Diamond Harbour subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Geography

Area overview

Diamond Harbour subdivision is a rural subdivision with patches of urbanization. Only 14.61% of the population lives in the urban areas and an overwhelming 85.39% lives in the rural areas. In the eastern portion of the subdivision there are 24 census towns. The entire district is situated in the Ganges Delta and the eastern part of the district is a flat plain area with small towns, many in clusters. Location of places in the larger map varies a little. It is an Open Street Map, while we are using coordinates as in Google maps.
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.

Location

Chandpur is located at

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census of India, Chandpur had a total population of 6,777 of which 3,533 were males and 3,244 were females. There were 990 persons in the age range of 0-6 years. The total number of literate persons in Chandpur was 4,679.

Infrastructure

According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Chandpur covered an area of 3.9821 km2. Among the physical aspects, there is a railway station at Mathurapur 4.5 km away. Among the civic amenities, the protected water supply involved hand pumps, tanks, ponds, lakes. It had 328 domestic electric connections. Among the medical facilities, it had 1 dispensary/ health centre. Among the educational facilities it had were 4 primary schools, the nearest higher school facilities being at Jagdishpur 3 km away. Among the social, recreational and cultural facilities it had 1 orphanage. An important commodity it produced was sholapith items. It had the branches of 1 nationalised bank and 1 agricultural credit society.

Transport

A short stretch of local roads link Chandpur to the State Highway 1.
Mathurapur Road railway station is located nearby.

Healthcare

Naiyarat Rural Hospital at Naiyarat, with 30 beds, is the major government medical facility in the Mandirbazar CD block.