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Puducherry consists of 10 communes. [1] Out of these, five communes are located in Puducherry district and the other five are located in Karaikal district. Puducherry is composed of three blocks, five municipalities, and ten communes. Puducherry and Karaikal have five communes each. The communes sub-divide into 98 village Panchayats.
A Police Circle consists of Police Stations, each headed by an Inspector of Police, or in case of rural areas, by a Sub-Inspector of Police. [31] The Calcutta High Court has the jurisdiction of the state of West Bengal. Though most of the districts have more courts other than a District Court, not every subdivision of the state has a Court.
The Puducherry District, also known by its former name Pondicherry district, is one of the four districts of the union territory of Puducherry in South India.The district occupies an area of 290 square kilometres (110 sq mi), [2] spread over 12 non-contiguous enclaves lying on or near the Bay of Bengal within a compact area in the state of Tamil Nadu.
The Union Territory of Puducherry consists of four small unconnected districts: Puducherry district (293 km 2 or 113 sq mi), Karaikal district (161 km 2 or 62 sq mi) and Yanam district (20 km 2 or 7.7 sq mi) on the Bay of Bengal and Mahé district (9 km 2 or 3.5 sq mi) on the Laccadive Sea, covering a total area of 483 km 2 (186 sq mi).
Raghunathpur subdivision occupies the northern part of the district. 83.80% of the population of the subdivision lives in rural areas. However, there are pockets of urbanization and 16.20% of the population lives in urban areas. There are 14 census towns in the subdivision. [4] It is presented in the map given alongside.
A large section of the area is a part of the Sundarbans settlements. [4] The densely populated area is an overwhelmingly rural area. Only 12.96% of the population lives in the urban areas and 87.04% of the population lives in the rural areas. [5] [6] Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision.
Cities, towns and ECL Areas in the northern portion of Durgapur subdivision in Paschim Bardhaman district MC: Municipal Corporation, CT: census town, R: rural administrative centre Owing to space constraints in the small map, the actual locations in a larger map may vary slightly
With a density of population of 787 per km 2 nearly half of the district’s population resides in this subdivision. 14.33% of the population lives in urban areas and 86.67% lives in the rural areas. [2] Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision.