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Paschim Medinipur, located in the south-western part of West Bengal, was created with the partition of the erstwhile Midnapore district, then the largest district of India, on 1 January 2002. It ranks second in terms of geographical area (9,295.28 km 2 ) amongst the districts of the state, next to South 24-Parganas (9,960 km 2 ).
Midnapore (Pron: mad̪aːniːpur), or sometimes Medinipur, is a former district in the Indian state of West Bengal, headquartered in Midnapore. On 1 January 2002, the district was bifurcated into two separate districts namely Purba Medinipur and Paschim Medinipur. It was the largest district of West Bengal by area and population at the time of ...
Paschim Medinipur district had a literacy rate of 78.00% as per the provisional figures of the census of India 2011. Medinipur Sadar subdivision had a literacy rate of 77% Kharagpur subdivision 80.51% and Ghatal subdivision 82.55%. [8] Given in the table below is a subdivision-wise comprehensive picture of the education scenario in Paschim ...
Paschim Medinipur district (before separation of Jhargram) had a total forest area of 1,700 km 2, accounting for 14.31% of the total forested area of the state.It is obvious from the map of the Midnapore Sadar subdivision, placed alongside, is that there are large stretches of forests in the subdivision.
Medinipur Division is one of the 5 divisions in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the westernmost division of West Bengal . Earlier it was a part of Burdwan division and was curved out from it in 2016. [ 3 ]
Daspur I CD block is bounded by Ghatal CD block in the north, Daspur II CD block in the east, Panskura I CD block, in Purba Medinipur district, in the south and Keshpur CD block in the west. It is located 52 km from Midnapore , the district headquarters.
With a collective population of 97 lakh or 9.7 million, the undivided district was the largest in terms of population in India and more populous than many countries, including Sweden. [1] With the division of the district, the subdivisions of Medinipur Sadar, Kharagpur , Jhargram , and Ghatal were placed in Paschim Medinipur, with Midnapore ...
Indian National Congress [4] 1957: Panskura West: Shymadas Bhattacharya: Indian National Congress [5] 1962: Shymadas Bhattacharya: Indian National Congress [4] 1967: R.K.Pramanik: Bangla Congress [6] 1969: Ahindra Mishra: Bangla Congress [7] 1971: Sk. Omar Ali: Communist Party of India [8] 1972: Sk. Omar Ali: Communist Party of India [9] 1977 ...