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CENSUS 1971 SERIES 22 WEST BENGAL PART X·A & B DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK COaCH BEHAR ALPHABETICAL LIST OF VILLAGES, TOWN AND, VILLAGE DIRECTORY AND PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT Compiled by DIRECTORATE OF CENSUS OPERATIONS WESTB£NGAL '0 C c:! :i ~ !I ;a c I.. "'"' 0... = u 8 z,., ., s i ~ ~ ..0 ... t- :i """0"1 :E ..... i .. \0" a: .,~ ..... « ® >. I c:! W ::E II: al =0 o I o(.) o (.) r / t o ex: I en o } r,; .... o j I ,,". ,. J ....; j " 0. ,. - Motif on the Cover page: Temple of Madanmohan at Cooch Behar : The temple is located by the side of a tank Bairagi Dighi, in Cooch Behar town. It was built by Maharaja Nripendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur in 1889-90. The temple is brick built and has a dome and spire faintly resembling the dome of the Kamakshya temple in Assam. Madanmohan Dev is the family deity of the Cooch Behar Raj. On the Kartiki J,)urnima day every year the Rash-Yatra festival of Madanmohan . Dev is celebrated with great pomp and splendour attractiqgnurnerpus, people: to the town from the country side. Price : (Inland) Rs. 10.00 Paise; (Foreign) £ 1.17 or 3 $ 60 cents. 1?tlJLISBBD BY DIll CONTltOUEIt.. QoVERmwNT PRINTING, WEST BENGAL AND PRINTED BY BARDHAN PREss, 8/4A, KAsHI GHOSH LANE, CALCUTTA-700006, 1977 PREFACE , The 1971 Series of District Census Handbooks of which this represents one volume, are being presented in a new form. The Handbooks have been divided into three sections. Part A presents data obtained from the field on land use patterns, civic amenities such as drinking water, post offices, primary schools etc. available in each village. Part B presents demographic data down to the village level. Part C presents official statistics gathered from sources other than the Census of, 1971 and also inclu des notes on various aspects of each district. Our attempt has been to present information concerning each district which is at once relevant and as detailed as possible, and we hope these volumes will prove useful to scholars, planners and those who are working to better the economic condition of the people in our State. Bhaskar Chose 10th August, 1973 Director of Census Operations West Bengal ( v.) 1971 CENSUS PUBLICATIONS GOVERN/MENT OF WEST BENGAL PUBLICATIONS , ~4 Volumes of District Census Handbooks ( Part A & B and Part C ) . iSenes 22: West Bengal-Part X.A &: B , " Darjeeling Published Nadia In Press Burdwan Published l Jalpaiguri Twen.~yfour Birbhum " Parganas (Part X-A) Published Cooch Behar PresentVolume Bankura Do (Part X-B) " .. West Dinajl'ur Published Howrah Published Midnapore (Part X-A) " MaIda Published Hooghly Do (Part X-B) In Press " Murshidabad • In Press Calcutta' " Puruli(l. Published GOVERNMENT OF iNDIA PUBLICATIONS Series 22 : West Bengal Part I-A GENERAL REPORT . Part I-B GENERAL REPORT Part I·C SUBSIDIARY TABLES Part II-A GENERAL POPULATION TABLES PUBLISHED Part H-B (i) GENERA~ EC9NOMIC TABLES PuBLISHED ( TABLES B-1 PART A.AND B-II ) Part II-B(U) GENERAL ECONOMIC TABLES IN PRESS Part I1-B(iii) GENERAL ECONOMIC TABLES IN PRESS Part II-C(i) SOCIAL AND CULTURAL TABLES IN PRESS (TABLES C-VII AND C-VIlI) Part I1-C(ii) SocIAL AND CULTURAL TABLES IN PRESS ( TABLES C-I TO C-VI AND FERTILITY TABLl£ ) Part Ii~D MIGRATION TABLES Part m-A ESTABLISHMENT TABLES PUBLISHED Part IIl-B . REPORT AND SUBSIDIARY TABLES ON EsTABLISHMENTS Part IV HOUSING REPORT AND TABLES PUBLISHED Part V-A SPECIAL TABLES FOR SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES Part V-B ETHNOGRAPHIC NOTES PaIt VI-A - STATE TOWN DIREcrORY Part VI-Dei-xv) SPECIAL SURVEY REPORTS ON SELECTED TOWNS Part VI.;.C(i-iii) SURVEY REpORTS ON SELECTED VILLAGES Part VIII-A ADMINISTRATION REPORT ON ENUMERATION PUBLISHED Part yUI-B ADMINI~TRATION REPORT ON TABULATION Part IX CENSUS ATLAS Part IX-A ADMlNl,,'JTRATIVB ATLAS Part XI(i-v) SPECIAL MONOGRAPHS 1 PUBLISHED AND 1 IN PRESS ( vi ) FIGURES AT A GLANCE Cooch Behar West Bengal District Population Total Persons 44,312,011 1,414,183 Males 23,435,987 737,931 Females 20,876.024: 676,252 Rural Persons 33,344,978 1,317,531 Males 17,173,552 685,303 Females 16,171,426 632,228 Urban Persons 10,967,033 96,652 ~ Males 6,262,435 52,628 Females 4,704,598 44,024 Decennial Population Total +26.87% +38.67% Growth Rate 1961-71 Rural +26.38% +38.93% Urban +28.41% +35.28% Area in Sq. Km. Total 87,853.0 3,386.0 Rural 85,903.1 3,362.8 Urban 1,949.9 23.2 Density of Population Total 504 418 per Sq. Km. Rural 388 392 Urban 5,624 4,184 Sex Ratio (Number of Total 891 916 Females per 1,000 Males) Rural 942, 923 Urban 751 837 Literacy Rate Total Persons. 33.20% 2192% Males 42.81% 31.08% Females 22.42% 11.93% Rural Persons 25.72~~ 19.23% Males 35.80% 28.47% Females 15.02% 9.22% Urban Persons 55.93% 58.58% Males 62.01% 65.11 % Females 47.84% 50.77% Proportion of Urban 24.750;0 6.830;0 PopUlation to Total Population ( vii ) Cooch Behar West Bengal District Percen tage of Workers Total P.ersons 27.91 27.61 to Total Population Males 48.83 5l.37 (Main activity only) Females 4.43 1.69 I Rural Persons 27.19 27.65 Males 48.48 51.79 Females 4.58 1.49 Urban Persons 30.12 27.08 Males 49.80 45.87 Females 3.92 4.62 Break-up of Workers : Percentage to Total Workers: ( i ) CIl,~tivators Total Persons 31.97 67.95 Males 3358 69.10 Females 12.12 29.87 ( ii ) Agricultural Labourers Total Persons 26.46 15.59 Males 25.00 15.28 Females 44.50 26.07 ( iii ) Other Workers Total Persons 41.57 16.45 Males 4l.42 15.62 Females 43.38 4406 Percentage of Scheduled Castes Total Persons 19.90 47.03 Population to Total Population Males 19.52 46.94 ,I Females 20.31 47.12 Percentage of Scheduled Tribes Total Persons 5.72 0.75 Population to Total Population Males 5.53 0,74 Females 5.93 0.77 Number of Occupied Total 7,555,685 243,399 Residential Houses Rural 5,608,490 227,866 Urban 1,947,195 15,533 Number of Households Total 8,053,681 253,807 Rural 5,901,869 235,821 Urban 2,151,812 17,986 Number of Villages Total 4] ,392 ],167 Inhabited 38,074 1,144 Uninhabited 3,318 23 Number of Towns 223 7 ( viii ) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Those who worked on this volume : A. VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY C. CARTOGRAPHY GENERAL SUPERVISION Shri D. P. Chatterjee, Assistant Director Shri S. Sinha, Deputy Director, " A. K. Ghosh T. O. Census Operations, West Bengal " A. K. Bhattacharjee " Field data collection " B. Das, Sr. Draftsman Shri A. K. Bose " A. R. Halder, Draftsman Officer-in-charge, Coach Behar Block Development Officers and their Staff " C. K. Ghose, " S. K. Chatterjee, " Oompilation, Ohecking, Oopying etc. " B. K. Majumdar, " Shri G. C. Bagchi, T.O. " A. K. Paul, " " A. Ahmed, Computor " H. R. Banerjee, " R. C. Kaibartta Das, B. PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT " Preparation of basic data " S. Banerjee Computor S~ri A. K. Dutta, Sm. M. Ghose, L.D.C. Deputy Director of Census Operations and the Staff of Siliguri Regional D. PRINTING AND PUBLICATIONS Tabulation Office Shri R. C. Bhar, S. T. A. Ohecking etc. " D. Sen, T.O. " M. L. Chandra Computor Shri M. N. Sarkar, Senior Investigator " A. Sen Gupta, " " S. L. Saha, S.A. " H. Saha Chowdhury, ProofReader " K. Dhani, Computor " G. S. Chatterjee, " " S. Sen Gupta, " Srq. S. Chatterjee, " " R. Bahadur, " ,; M. Saha Chowdhury, " B. Majumdar, " " Shti S. K, Dutta, " K. Datta, \ " " " B. Roy, " " P. B. Nath, " " . R. Bhattacharya, " A. Chatterjee, " " " S. Ali, " Sm. A. Bagcbi, Assistant Compiler " U. S. Bhattacharya. " " S. Dutta, .. " A" Sarkar, Asstt . Computor " K. Banerjee, " " A.Rout, " " A. Mookherjee, .. " D. Chatterjee. Typist " B. Guha, .. " D. Roy, " E. GENERAL SUPERVISION: " R. K. Bhattacharya, " PUBLICATION· " M. Banerjee. " Shri M. C. Datta, Deputy Director, " K. Chowdhury, " Census Operations, West Bengal CONTENTS PAGE Figures at a Glance : (vi) Alphabetical List of Villages and Towns: 1-19 police Stations-Haldibari 3, I Mekliganj 4, Mathabhanga 7, Sitalkuchi 9, Cooch Behar 10, Tufanganj 14, Dihhata 15, Sitai 19 Town Directory : 21-29 Table I-Status, age, growth history and functional Category 22 Table II-Physical aspects and location, 1969 22 Table III-Municipal finance, 1968-69 24 Table IV -Civio and other amenities, 1969 24 Table V-Medical, educational, recreational and Cultural facilities, 1969 26 Table VI-Trade, Commeroe, industry and Banking, 1969 26 Table VII-Population by religion, 1971 28 Village Directory : 31-105 Explanatory Note 33, Police Stations-Haldibari 34, Mekliganj 38, Mathabhanga 48, Sitalkuchi 60, Cooch Behar 64, Tufanganj 78, Dinhata 86, Sitai 100 Primary Census Abstract : 1-71 District Primary Census Abstract (2), Village/Urban Blookwise Primary Census Abstract: Police Stations-Haldibari (6), Mekliganj (10), Mathabhanga (20), Sitalkuchi (30), Cooch Behar (34), Tufanganj (50), Dinhata (56), Sitai (68) List of Illustrations : !)istrict Map of Cobch Behar Frontispieoe Polioe Stations Map of: Haldibari (75), Mekliganj. 76), Mathabhanga (77), Sitalkuchi (78), Cooch Behar (79), Tufanganj (80), Dinhata (81), Sitai (82) NOTE ON AREA Total area figures shown in Column No.4 for the distrlct as a whole in the Distriot Primary Census Abstract represent 'Geographioal Area' figures supplied by the Surveyor General. India. Area figures for the total urban seotor of the district have been computed from the area figures for the individual urban units supplied by the looal bodies concerned.