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	==Economy==		==Economy==
	===Rural poverty===		===Rural poverty===
	According to estimates obtained from a survey of families living [[Below Poverty Line]] in 2005, rural poverty in Tarakeswar was 18.62 percent.<ref>{{cite web\| url = http://www.wbplan.gov.in/HumanDev/DHDR/DHDR_Hooghly.pdf \|title = District Human Development Report: Hooghly \|work = Table 2.38: Empirical Measurement of Rural Poverty in Hooghly 2005, page 89 \| publisher= Development and Planning Department, Government of West Bengal, 2011 \| access-date = 14 June 2017}}</ref>		According to estimates obtained from a survey of families living [[Below Poverty Line]] in 2005, [[rural poverty]] in Tarakeswar was 18.62 percent.<ref>{{cite web\| url = http://www.wbplan.gov.in/HumanDev/DHDR/DHDR_Hooghly.pdf \|title = District Human Development Report: Hooghly \|work = Table 2.38: Empirical Measurement of Rural Poverty in Hooghly 2005, page 89 \| publisher= Development and Planning Department, Government of West Bengal, 2011 \| access-date = 14 June 2017}}</ref>

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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Tarakeswar
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| postal_code = 712410 (Tarakeswar) 712401 (Champadanga)
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'''Tarakeshwar''' is a [[panchayat samiti]] ([[List of community development blocks in India|community development block]]) in [[Chandannagore subdivision]] of [[Hooghly district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and union territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].

==Overview==
[[File:Map of hooghly district .jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|alt=See caption|Map of Hooghly district, with CD blocks and municipal areas]]
[[File:Tarokeswr CD Block Map.svg|thumb|upright=1.3|alt=See caption|Map of Tarakeswar]]
The CD block is part of the Hooghly-Damodar Plain, one of the district's three natural regions of flat [[alluvium|alluvial]] plains which form part of the [[Ganges Delta]]. It has many depressions which receive water from tributaries of the surrounding lands during the rainy season and discharge it in smaller channels.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/DCHB/DCHB_A/19/1912_PART_A_DCHB_HUGLI.pdf |title = District Census Handbook: Hugli, Series-20, Part XIIA | work= Physigraphy, Page 17|publisher= Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal, 2011 | access-date = 1 June 2017 }}</ref>

Tarakeshwar is bordered by [[Dhaniakhali (community development block)|Dhaniakhali CD block]] on the north, [[Haripal (community development block)|Haripal CD block]] on the east, [[Jangipara (community development block)|Jangipara CD block]] on the south, and [[Pursurah (community development block)|Pursurah CD block]] on the west. It is {{convert|45|km}} from [[Chinsurah]], the district headquarters. The CD block covers an area of {{convert|119.93|km2}}. It has 10 [[gram panchayat]]s (Astara-Duttapur, Baligori I, Baligori II, Bhanjipur, [[Champadanga]], Keshabchak, Naita-Mal Paharpur, Purba Ramnagar, Santoshpur and Talpur),<ref>{{cite web| url = http://wbprd.gov.in/HtmlPage/PANCHAYATS.aspx |title = Directory of District, Subdivision, Panchayat Samiti/ Block and Gram Panchayats in West Bengal |work = Hooghly – Revised in March 2008 | publisher= Panchayats and Rural Development Department, Government of West Bengal | access-date = 16 May 2016}}</ref> 144 village councils, 90 [[mouza]]s and 89 villages. The [[Tarakeswar#Police station|Tarakeswar police station]] serves the block.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://wbpspm.gov.in/publications/District%20Statistical%20Handbook |title = District Statistical Handbook 2014 Hooghly |work = Tables 2.1, 2.2 |publisher = Department of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of West Bengal |access-date = 15 October 2018}}</ref> Headquarters of this CD Block is at Tarakeswar.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/DCHB/DCHB_A/19/1912_PART_A_DCHB_HUGLI.pdf |title = District Census Handbook: Hugli, Series-20, Part XIIA | work= Map of Hooghly district with CD Block HQs and Police Stations (on the fifth page) |publisher= Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal, 2011 | access-date = 1 June 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.hooghlyzp.org/html/tarakeswar.html | title = Tarakeswar | work= Local Self-government| access-date = 6 June 2017 | publisher = Hooghly Zilla Parishad}}</ref>

==Demographics==
===Population===
Tarakeswar had a population of 162,355 in the [[2001 Census of India|2001 census]], of whom 83,141 (51 percent) were males and 79,214 (49 percent) were females. Its population increased by 11.56 percent from 1991 to 2001 decade, and the district's population increased by 15.72 percent.<ref name="census">{{cite web|url=http://web.cmc.net.in/wbcensus/DataTables/02/Table4_12.htm|title=Provisional Population Totals, West Bengal. Table 4|work=Census of India 2001 – Hooghly district|publisher=Census Commission of India|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928211036/http://web.cmc.net.in/wbcensus/DataTables/02/Table4_12.htm|archive-date=September 28, 2011|access-date=2011-01-20}}</ref> West Bengal's population increased by 17.84 percent during the decade.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wbcensus.gov.in/DataTables/02/Table4_1.htm|title=Provisional Population Totals, West Bengal. Table 4|work=Census of India 2001|publisher=Census Commission of India|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927041813/http://www.wbcensus.gov.in/DataTables/02/Table4_1.htm|archive-date=September 27, 2007|access-date=2011-01-20}}</ref>

In the [[2011 Census of India|2011 census]], Tarakeswar's population increased to 179,148 (entirely rural). There were 91,534 males (51 percent) and 87,614 females (49 percent). The population under age six was 17,096. [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes|Scheduled Caste members]] numbered 42,338 (23.63 percent), and [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes|Scheduled Tribe members]] numbered 9,034 (5.04 percent).<ref name="census2011">{{cite web| url = http://censusindia.gov.in/pca/cdb_pca_census/Houselisting-housing-WB.html |title = C.D. Block Wise Primary Census Abstract Data(PCA) | work= 2011 census: West Bengal – District-wise CD Blocks|publisher= Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India | access-date = 26 May 2016}}</ref>

Villages with a population of over 4,000 in 2011 were Santoshpur (4,063), Talpur (5,389), Moktarpur (6,364), Bhanjipur (4,433), Purba Ramnagar (7,759), Baligari (5,845), Astara (6,590) and [[Champadanga]] (12,518).<ref name="census2011" /> Smaller villages are Keshabchak (2,569), Malpaharpur (2,116) and Duttapur (1,168).<ref name=census2011/>

===Literacy===
In 2001, Tarakeswar had a total literacy rate of 56.23 percent; male literacy was 77.61 percent, and female literacy was 54.66 percent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hooghlyzp.org/html/tarakeswar.html|title=Tarakeswar|work=Local Self-government|publisher=Hooghly Zilla Parishad|access-date=2011-08-04}}</ref> In 2011, the number of literate people was 129,574; males numbered 71,609, and females numbered 57,965. [[Literacy#Gender disparities|Gender disparity]] was 13.42 percent.<ref name="census2011" />

{{Literacy in CD Blocks of Hooghly district|collapsible=y}}

===Language and religion===
[[Bengali language|Bengali]] was the mother tongue of 86.4 percent of Hooghly district's population in 2001, followed by Hindi at 7.9 percent. [[Santali language|Santali]] (2.6 percent) and [[Urdu]] (two percent) are also spoken in the district.

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In 2011, Tarakeswar had 159,330 Hindus, 18,274 Muslims and 1,544 followers of other religions.<ref name="censusreligion2011">{{cite web| url = http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/c-01.html |title = C1 Population by Religious Community | work= West Bengal |publisher= Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India | access-date = 3 May 2016}}</ref>

==Economy==
===Rural poverty===
According to estimates obtained from a survey of families living [[Below Poverty Line]] in 2005, rural poverty in Tarakeswar was 18.62 percent.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.wbplan.gov.in/HumanDev/DHDR/DHDR_Hooghly.pdf |title = District Human Development Report: Hooghly |work = Table 2.38: Empirical Measurement of Rural Poverty in Hooghly 2005, page 89 | publisher= Development and Planning Department, Government of West Bengal, 2011 | access-date = 14 June 2017}}</ref>

===Employment===
{{Pie chart
|caption= Employment in Tarakeswar
|value1 = 19.55
|label1 = Farmers
|value2 = 38.09
|label2 = Agricultural labourers
|value3 = 5.19
|label3 = Household industries
|value4 = 37.17
|label4 = Other workers}}

In 2011, farmers were 19.55 percent of the workforce; agricultural laborers were 38.09 percent, [[Putting-out system#Cottage industry|household-industry]] workers 5.19 percent and other workers 37.17 percent.<ref name="handbook2014">{{cite web | url = http://wbpspm.gov.in/publications/District%20Statistical%20Handbook | title = District Statistical Handbook 2014 Hooghly | work = Tables 2.7, 17.2, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2, 20.1, 21.2, 4.4, 3.1, 3.3 – arranged as per use | publisher = Department of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of West Bengal | access-date = 15 October 2018}}</ref>

===Infrastructure===
Tarakeswar has 89 villages, all with electricity. Forty-one villages have more than one source of drinking water (a tap, well, [[tube well]], or hand pump); seven villages have only a tube (or bore well), and 36 have only a hand pump. Eight villages have post offices, 14 have sub-post offices and three have post-and-telegraph offices. Sixty-three villages have [[landline]]s, 58 have public call offices, and 82 have mobile-phone coverage. Forty-six villages have roads, and 29 have bus service. Eighteen villages have agricultural credit societies, eight have commercial or co-operative banks, and one village has a bank [[Automated teller machine|ATM.]]<ref name="censushandbook">{{cite web| url = http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/DCHB/DCHB_A/19/1912_PART_A_DCHB_HUGLI.pdf |title = District Census Handbook: Hugli, Series-20, Part XIIA | work= Appendices to Village Directory, 2009, Pages 775-779|publisher= Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal, 2011 | access-date = 1 June 2017 }}</ref>

===Agriculture===
The agricultural area has several cold-storage facilities.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://wbagrimarketingboard.gov.in/cold%20storage-ok/Cold%20storage11.html | title= List of functioning Cold Storage of West Bengal District wise as on 18.01.07 | publisher= West Bengal State Marketing Board | access-date=28 January 2009}}</ref> Although rice is the district's main crop, potatoes, [[jute]], vegetables and fruits are also grown.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://hooghly.nic.in/AGRI-INTEN.HTM | title= Intensive cropping with remarkable feature of Hooghly District | access-date= 28 January 2009 | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110716220215/http://hooghly.nic.in/AGRI-INTEN.HTM | archive-date= 16 July 2011 }}</ref>

[[Land reform in India|Land reform]] has changed patterns of land ownership. In 2013-14, people engaged in agriculture in Tarakeswar consisted of ''[[Sharecropping|bargadars]]'' (10.17 percent), [[Patta (land deed)|patta]] (deed) holders (4.73 percent), small farmers—owning {{convert|1|-|2|ha}}—8.24 percent, marginal farmers—less than {{convert|1|ha}}—35.20 percent, and agricultural labourers 41.65 percent.<ref name=handbook2014/> Tarakeswar has markets in Baliguri, Champadanga, Santoshpur and Kararia.<ref>{{cite web | url =http://wbagrimarketingboard.gov.in/bazar/hooghly.html | title = Primary Hats/Markets of District | publisher = West Bengal State Marketing Board | work = Hooghly | access-date = 29 January 2009}}</ref>

The CD block had 95 fertiliser depots, 38 seed stores and 47 [[Public distribution system|fair-price shops]] in 2013-14.<ref name=handbook2014/> It produced oil seeds, 81,189 tonnes of [[Rice#Ecotypes and cultivars|Aman paddy]] (the main winter crop) from {{convert|27792|ha}}, 5,229 tonnes of Boro paddy (a spring crop) from {{convert|1668|ha}}, 58,340 tonnes of jute from {{convert|2730|ha}}, and 81,573 tonnes of potatoes from {{convert|5105|ha}}.<ref name=handbook2014/> The total irrigated area was {{convert|11828|ha}}; of this, {{convert|7125|ha}} were irrigated by canal water, {{convert|1780|ha}} by tank water, {{convert|50|ha}} by river [[lift irrigation]], {{convert|480|ha}} by deep tube wells, and {{convert|2393|ha}} by shallow tube wells.<ref name=handbook2014/>

===Banking===
In 2013-14, Tarakeswar 10 commercial-bank offices and one [[Regional Rural Bank]].<ref name=handbook2014/>

==Transport==
The block has 27 bus routes.<ref name=handbook2014/>
The broad-gauge [[Sheoraphuli-Bishnupur branch line|Sheoraphuli–Tarakeswar branch line]] was opened by the Tarkessur Railway Company on 1 January 1885, and was operated by the [[East Indian Railway Company]].<ref>"Administration Report on the Railways in India" 1884–85</ref><ref name="east">{{cite web | url = http://www.irfca.org/~mrinal/chronology.html | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120802133149/http://www.irfca.org/~mrinal/chronology.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2012-08-02 | title = The Chronology of Railway development in Eastern Indian | publisher = railindia | access-date = 2011-11-17 }}</ref>

A Tarakeswar-Bishnupur project was authorised in 1999-2000,<ref>{{cite web| url = http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-19/india/33951258_1_railway-projects-railway-minister-joka-bbd-bag-stretch | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130616144031/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-19/india/33951258_1_railway-projects-railway-minister-joka-bbd-bag-stretch | url-status = dead | archive-date = 16 June 2013 |title = Rail projects in jeopardy after Mamata quits UPA II| date=19 September 2012| work = [[The Times of India]] | access-date = 16 April 2013 }}</ref> and Eastern Railway provided details about the project in 2003. The proposed fully-electrified line was divided into three parts: Tarakeswar-Arambagh—{{convert|26|km}}, Arambagh-Kodabari—{{convert|16|km}}, and Kodabari-Bishnupur—{{convert|44|km}}.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-07-15/kolkata/27185244_1_rail-link-bishnupur-station-new-route | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130616153804/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-07-15/kolkata/27185244_1_rail-link-bishnupur-station-new-route | url-status = dead | archive-date = 16 June 2013 |title =Eastern Railway plans new route | date=15 July 2003| work = [[The Times of India]] | access-date = 16 April 2013 }}</ref> It will be part of the [[Kolkata Suburban Railway#Howrah Eastern Section|Kolkata Suburban Railway]] system. [[State Highway 2 (West Bengal)|State Highway 2]] (running from Bankura to Malancha in [[North 24 Parganas district]]) and [[State Highway 15 (West Bengal)|State Highway 15]], running from Dainhat (in [[Purba Bardhaman district]]) to Gadiara (in [[Howrah district]]), pass through the block.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.wbtrafficpolice.com/state-highways.php |title = List of State Highways in West Bengal | publisher= West Bengal Traffic Police | access-date = 23 August 2016}}</ref>
{{Sheoraphuli–Bishnupur branch line|collapse=y}}

==Education==
In 2013-14, Tarakeswar had 114 primary schools with 8,958 students; 10 middle schools, with 737 students; seven high schools, with 3,491 students, and 10 higher secondary schools, with 12,692 students. It had one [[College#India|college]] with 3,255 students, and 291 institutions for special and non-formal education with 7,846 students.<ref name=handbook2014/> [[Rabindra Mahavidyalaya]], a college, was founded in [[Champadanga]] in 1971.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://rabindramahavidyalaya.org/ | title = Rabindra Mahavidyalaya | publisher = RM |access-date = 30 June 2017}}</ref> Of Tarakeswar's 89 villages, two had no school; 30 had more than one primary school, 66 had at least one primary school, 21 had at least one primary and one middle school, and 15 had at least one middle and one secondary school.<ref name=censushandbook/>

==Healthcare and groundwater==
Tarakeswar had one rural hospital, two [[Primary Health Centre (India)|primary health centres]] and three private nursing homes with a total 105 beds and eight doctors in 2014. It had 31 family welfare sub-centers; all treated 21,028 patients indoors and 215,593 outdoors.<ref name=handbook2014/> Tarakeswar Rural Hospital, in [[Tarakeswar]], had 60 beds; Duttapur Primary Health Centre had four beds, and Talpur PHC had ten.<ref name="medical">{{cite web | url = https://www.wbhealth.gov.in/ | title = Health & Family Welfare Department | work= Health Statistics | publisher = Government of West Bengal |access-date = 15 July 2017}}</ref>

The block has a low [[arsenic contamination of groundwater]]. The [[World Health Organization|WHO]] guideline for arsenic in drinking water is 10 mg per litre, and the Indian standard is 50 mg. Sixteen blocks in Hooghly district have arsenic levels above WHO guidelines, and 11 have levels above the Indian standard. Tarakeswar's maximum concentration is 37 mg per litre.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.soesju.org/arsenic/wb8.htm| title = Groundwater Arsenic contamination in West Bengal-India (20 years study )| publisher = SOES| work = Hugli| access-date = 3 June 2017| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170524133243/http://www.soesju.org/arsenic/wb8.htm| archive-date = 24 May 2017}}</ref>

==See also==

* [[List of West Bengal districts ranked by literacy rate]]

==References==
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{{Municipalities of West Bengal}}
{{Hooghly topics}}

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