District Profile : Paschim Medinipur

Demographic Features and Adiministrative Unit	Employment Exchange Data	Agriculture
Education	Backward Class Welfare	Forestry
Health and Family Welfare	Urban Affairs and MKDA	Fisheries
Water Supply and Sanitation	Co-operation	Electrification
Panchayat and Rural Development	Finanicial Institution	Roads
Cottage and Small Scale Industries	Rural Development Programme

Demographic Features & Adiministrative Units
Population(census 2001)	5193411	Total Town	14
Male	2648048	Municipality	08
Female	2545363	Non-Municipality Town	06
Scheduled castes	937340(18.05%)	Literacy Rate(2001)	60.70%
Scheduled tribes	772177(14.87%)	Male	70.13%
Rural population	4686264	Female	50.90%
Urban population	507147	BPL Information(2002)
Area(in sq.K.M)	9295.28	Total Rural Families	1058290
Urban	218.85	Total BPL Families	349745
Rural	9076.43	% of BPL Families	32.88%
Total Households(2001)	900700	Birth Rate(Per 1000)	20.00(2002)
Decennial growth rate	+16.32%	Death Rate (Per 1000)	7.30(2002)
Density of population(per sq.K.M)	561.40	Infant Mortality Rate	48(2002)
Sex ratio(No.of femail per 1000 male)	962	Mother Mortality Rate	1.4
Total Mouza	8735	Couple Protection Rate	59%
Inhabited	7498	Life Expectancy At Birth	67.5 Yrs.
Uninhabited	1237

ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS
Sub-Divisions	04	Wards	131
Police Stations	27	M.P. Constituency	3+1 part
Blocks/Panchayat Samity	29	M.L.A. constituency	21
Gram Panchayats	290	Panchayat Samity Members	707
Gram Sansads	3491	Z.P. Members	59
Municipalities	08

EDUCATION
Primary Education		Other Educational Institutions
Govt. aided Primary Schools	46666	Teacher's Training Institute	03
Total Student	433496	College(Degree)	19
Total Teachers	11481	University(V.U)	01
Sishu Siksha Kendra(SSK)	2433	No of Medical College(Homeo)	01
Total Students	116199	I.I.T(KGP)	01
Sahayaks/Sahayikas	5984	No of I.T.I	02
PTTI	03	No of Polytechnics	01
Secondary Education		Total Library	158
Total Secondary School	746	ICDS	30
Total Studedents	5.44 lakh	Anganwadi Center	4535
Total Teachers	12065
Higher Secondary	236
High School + High Madarash	311
Jr. High + Jr. High Madarash	170
Sr. Madarash(Co-ed)	05
Madhyamik Siksha Karmasuchi(MSK)	228

HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE
District Hospital	01	T. B. Sanatorium	01
Sub-Divitional Hospital	03	Urban Family Welfare Center	02
Rural Hospital	09	Leprosy Control Unit	09
BPHC	20	State Homeo Center	40
P.H.C	82	State Medical Unit	01
Sub-center	858

WATER SUPPLY & SANITATION
No. of Rural Water Supply functioning	39	Household latrine completed	855723
Rural Population covered	386013	Fully sanitized Block	14 nos.
Mouza Covered	312

PANCHAYAT & RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Zilla Parishad	01	Average Electors per Gram Sabha	9427
Panchayat Samity	29	Gram Samsad	3491
Gram Panchayat	290	Average Electors per Gram Sansad	787
Gram Sabha	290

COTTAGE & S.S.I (in nos.)
Registered SSI	7672	Sericulture
Employment	41240	Area under Mulberry cultivation	1033.73 acres
Handloom (in nos.)		Area under Tasar cultivation	1826.83 acres
Total Handlooms	10120	Farmers engaged (in nos)
Total Handloom Co-Operative	117	a) Mulberry	1853
Looms under Co-Operative	8059	b) Tasar	2249
S.C. Weavers' Co-Operative	623

Cocoon Production		Silk Production
a) Mulberry	36.77 mt.	a) Mulberry	0.33 mt.
b) Tasar (in kahans)	4542	b) Tasar	1.14 mt.

Govt. Infrastructure (in nos.)		Private Infrastructure (in nos.)
a) Farm b) Cold Storage	05 01	a) Charkas b) Cottage Basin	03 03
		Reeling cum spinning machine	50 (Tasar)

RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Total SHGs formed	18695	Bank A/C Opened	16437
Women SHGs	14249	Toatal Savings	1204.89

EMPLOYMENT EX. DATA 2003
No of Employment Exchange (Mid,KGP,Jhar,Belda,Ghatal)	05	P.H.	6144
Live Register	444998	O.B.C.	17097
S.C.	30676	Minority Community	10986
S.T.	9999	Ex-Serviceman	700

BACKWARD CLASS WELFARE
Enlisted SC& ST Communities	45	Major SC Community	Santal
Scheduled Caste	16	Major ST Community	Lodha ,Kheria
Scheduled Tribe	62	Most Backward ST Community	Sabar
Other Backward Class	Keshpur	Lodha People concentrated Mouza	123
Max. SC Populated Block	binpur II	Number Of Lodha People	60136
Max. ST Populated Block	Mohanpur	No. of ITDP Mouza	2043
Min SC Populated Block	Bagdi	No. of ITDP Blocks	19

URBAN AFFAIRS / M.K.D.A.
Total Municipality	08	Population(MKDA)	719686
No of wards	131	No. of Blocks(MKDA)	4
Geographical area under Mun	13.37 Sq. K.M	No. of G.P.(MKDA)	14
Population(2001 Final)	507147	Mouza(MKDA)	514
Male	26933	Municipality(MKDA)	2
Female	246214	Wards(MKDA)	55
Area(MKDA)	596.76 Sq.K.M

CO-OPERATION
Total Co-operatives	2439	PACS	859
CARD	03	Cold Storage	03
Urban Co-operative Bank	02	Employees Credit Co-Operatives	734
Agril. Marketing Co-operative	24	Housing Co-Operative	133
Un Employed Eng. Co-operative	90

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Cokmercial Banks(17)	255	West Bengal Fin. Corporation	01
Regional rural Banks(1)	37	Indus	01
Central Co-Operatives(2)	43	U.T.I	02

AGRICULTURE(in hec.)
Net Area Under Cultivation	585222	Baren & Unculturable Land	20132
Area Under Forest	173038	Cultural Waste Land	18932
Area Under Orchard & Other	3855	Fallow and other current fallow	7551
Permanent Pasture & Grazing Land	4792	Area under non-agrl use	141779.5

FORESTRY
Recorded Forest area	176183 ha.	Total beneficiaries	125608
legal status(in ha)		Forest area covered	139581.84ha.
Reserved	3942.56 HA.	Territorial Ranges	36 nos.
Protected	164598.68 HA.	Forest Road	176 km.
Un classed	7641.86 HA.
Registered FPC	1253

FISHERIES
Total Water Area	30224 ha.	a) Primary	29
Ponds / Tanks	18820 ha.	b) Central	01
Production per ha.	2500 kg.	c) Groups	197
Bills and Boars	404 ha.	Fisherman Model Village	03
Total Fisherman(in nos.)	31500	Fisherman Houses Through IAY	635
Fish Production		Requirement of Table Fish	48000 M.T.
Fish seed	100.03 crores	Water Area Developed by FFDA	6130 ha.
Table Fish (inland)	30311 M.T.	Fish farmer benefited through FFDA	29285
Fisherman Co-operative and Groups	219	Fish farmer trained through FFDA	17035

ELECTRIFICATION
Total Mouza	8735	Total Dom./Comm./Ind. Consumer	247595
Inhabited Mouza	7476	Decentralized Bulk Consumer	164
Mouza Electrified	5310(70.8%)	Total Load Demand	210 MVA
132 K.V. Sub-Sation	04	Lok Deep	3041
33 K.V. Sub-Sation	31	PHE	104

ROADS(in kms.)
National High Way	212	Rural Roads	262.82
Roads maintained by PW Rd	1158.24	Roads Maintained by ZP / Mun	7338.69
State high way	226.265	Black Top	1537.01
Major Districts Roads	167.43	Granular / Morrum	4082.02
Other Districts Roads	629.01	Track(Mud)	1719.66

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