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Pachkalguri

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Pachkalguri
Village
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CountryFile:Flag of India.svg India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictAlipurduar
Population
 (2011)
 • Total
3,257
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
736208
Telephone/STD code03564
Vehicle registrationWB
Lok Sabha constituencyAlipurduars
Vidhan Sabha constituencyAlipurduars
Websitealipurduar.gov.in

Pachkalguri is a village in the Alipurduar I CD block in the Alipurduar subdivision of the Alipurduar district in the state of West Bengal, India.

Geography

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Location

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Area overview

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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 the 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 high concentration of tribal people (scheduled tribes) in the three northern blocks of the district.[1][2][3]

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.

Civic administration

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CD block HQ

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Headquarters of Alipurduar I CD block is at Pachkalguri.[4]

Demographics

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According to the 2011 Census of India, Pachkalguri had a population of 3,257 inhabitants, of which 1,632 (50%) were male and 1,625 (50%) were female. There were 348 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Pachkalguri was 2,206 (75.83% of the population over 6 years).[5]

Education

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Pijushkanti Mukherjee Mahavidyalaya was established at Sonapur in 2015. Affiliated with the University of North Bengal, it offers courses in arts.[6]

Healthcare

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Pachkalguri Rural Hospital, with 30 beds, is the major government medical facility in the Alipurduar I CD block.[7]

References

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