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Bankura Statistics & Map 
BANKURA is a district with a high percentage of Tribal population. Cultivation is the main source of income. It is also famous for music, art and culture. With the diverse variety of land with large tracts of forests and hills, the districts has found a place on the tourist map. Mukutmanipur, Bishnupur, Jhilmil are the main spots of attraction.
Bankura lies just north of the Dhaleshwari (Dhalkisor) River. As a major Grand Trunk Road and rail junction, Bankura is an agricultural distributing centre. Rice and oilseed milling, cotton weaving, metalware manufacture, and railway workshops are the major industries. Constituted a municipality in 1869, Bankura has several colleges, including a medical school, affiliated with the University of Burdwan.
Bankura lies on a densely populated alluvial plain. Rice, wheat, corn (maize), and sugarcane are the chief crops in the surrounding agricultural area; mica, china clay, iron-ore, lead, zinc, and wolframite deposits are also worked in the locality. The area long remained a focus of Hindu culture based on the Mallabhum kingdom, with its capital at Bishnupur.
District Statistics
|
Area |
square km |
6.882.00 |
|
Forest |
square km |
1,397.00 |
|
Net sown area |
square km |
4,008.59 |
|
Net irrigated area |
square km |
1,522.36 |
|
Population |
'000 |
2,805.07 |
|
Male |
'000 |
1,437.52 |
|
Female |
'000 |
1,367.55 |
|
Urban |
'000 |
232.48 |
|
Rural |
'000 |
2,572.59 |
|
Population growth (p.a.) |
% |
1.66 |
|
Population density |
Persons/Sq.Km. |
407.59 |
|
Relative Index of Development |
|
60.00 |
|
Urbanisation |
% |
8.29 |
|
Literacy |
% |
52.04 |
|
Male |
% |
66.75 |
|
Female |
% |
36.55 |
|
Workers as % of total population |
% |
35.91 |
|
Workers as % of main workers |
|
|
|
Agriculture & allied activities |
% |
75.82 |
|
Mining & Quarrying |
% |
0.32 |
|
Mfg. (Non-household) industries |
% |
4.92 |
|
Household industries |
% |
3.44 |
|
Construction |
% |
1.01 |
|
Services |
% |
14.50 |
|
Forest area as % of reporting area |
% |
20.38 |
|
Gross irrigated area as % of gross cropped area |
% |
33.07 |
|
Fertilizer consumption per ha. |
Kg |
77.00 |
|
Per capita food grain production |
Kg |
259.00 |
|
Road Length per 100 sq. km |
Km |
17.51 |
|
Post offices per 100,000 persons |
No. |
16.83 |
|
Telegraph offices per 100,000 persons |
No. |
0.96 |
|
Bank branches per 100,000 persons |
No. |
5.85 |
|
Per capita Bank deposits |
Rupees |
838.00 |
|
Per capita Bank credit |
Rupees |
300.00 |
|
Per capita Bank credit to SSIs |
Rupees |
27.00 |
|
Per capita Bank credit to industries |
Rupees |
89.00 |
Major Crops
|
Crop |
Quantity (tones) |
Value as % of district total |
|
Rice |
699,793 |
80.36 |
|
Potatoes |
250,440 |
11.81 |
|
Rapeseed |
12,276 |
2.80 |
|
Sesamum |
8,329 |
2.28 |
|
Wheat |
21,066 |
1.63 |
|
Jute |
13,403 |
0.26 |
|
Sugarcane |
11,783 |
0.13 |
Major Minerals Production
|
Mineral |
Quantity in tones |
Value in Rupees Millions |
|
Coal |
40,000 |
10.00 |
|
Fireclay |
14,754 |
0.57 |
|
Other clay |
2,597 |
0.05 |
Places of Tourist Interest
 Shushunia
Jairambati
Bishnupur
Koro Pahar
Map
Press Articles
The Statesman, 10 January 1999
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