Birpara


Birpara is a census town in Alipurduar I CD block in Alipurduar subdivision of Alipurduar district, West Bengal, India

Geography

Location

Birpara is located at.

Area overview

Alipurduar district is covered by two maps. It is an extensive area in the eastern end of the Dooars in West Bengal. It is undulating country, largely forested, with numerous rivers flowing down from the outer ranges of the Himalayas in Bhutan. It is a predominantly rural area with 79.38% of the population living in the rural areas. The district has 1 municipal town and 20 census towns and that means that 20.62% of the population lives in urban areas. The scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, taken together, form more than half the population in all the six community development blocks in the district. There is a high concentration of tribal people in the three northern blocks of the district.
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, Birpara had a total population of 10,821 of which 5,607 were males and 5,214 were females. There were 9,771 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Birpara was 7,937.

Infrastructure

According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Jalpaiguri, Birpara covered an area of 6.1247 km2. Among the civic amenities, the protected water supply involved hand pumps. It had 1,075 domestic electric connections. Among the medical facilities it had 1 hospital, 8 medicine shops. Among the educational facilities it had 10 primary schools, 1 middle school, 1 secondary school. It had 1 recognised shorthand, typewriting and vocational training institution, 1 special school for the disabled.