Bud Bud is a
census town
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India
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in
Galsi I CD Block of
Bardhaman Sadar North subdivision of
Purba Bardhaman district
Purba Bardhaman district is in West Bengal. Its headquarters is in Bardhaman. It was formed on 7 April 2017 after the division of the previous Bardhaman district. Great revolutionary Rash Behari Bose was born in village Subaldaha in the district ...
in the Indian state of
West Bengal
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.
Geography
Location
Bud Bud is located at .
Bud Bud is located on
NH 19 (formerly known as
Grand Trunk Road) in the laterite plains between
Damodar River and
Ajay River. Khari or Khargeswari River flows through the area. It is believed that the river was earlier linked with Damodar.
It is nearly from Durgapur Steel City and from Burdwan town. It is close to Mankar railway station and a place surrounded with rice processing mills.
Urbanisation
73.58% of the population of Bardhaman Sadar North subdivision live in the rural areas. Only 26.42% of the population live in the urban areas, and that is the highest proportion of urban population amongst the four subdivisions in Purba Bardhaman district. 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.
Gram panchayats
Gram panchayat
Gram Panchayat () is a basic village-governing institute in Indian villages. It is a democratic structure at the grass-roots level in India. It is a political institute, acting as cabinet of the village. The Gram Sabha work as the general bod ...
s under Galsi I Panchayat Samiti (in
Bardhaman Sadar North subdivision) are: Chaktentul, Budbud, Mankar, Lowapur-Krishnarampur, Serorai and Uchagram.
Police station
Bud Bud police station has jurisdiction over parts of
Galsi I and
Ausgram II CD Blocks. The area covered is 139.7 km.
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CD Block HQ
The headquarters of Galsi I CD Block are located at Bud Bud.
Demographics
As per
2011 Census of India
The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Informatio ...
Bud Bud had a total population of 4,558 of which 2,334 (51%) were males and 2,224 (49%) were females. Population below 6 years was 410. The total number of literates in Bud Bud was 3,348 (80.71% of the population over 6 years).
Infrastructure
As per the District Census Handbook 2011, Bud Bud covered an area of 3.9631 km
2. It had 15 km roads. Amongst the medical facilities, the nearest nursing home was 3 km away and the nearest veterinary hospital was 3 km away. It had 4 medicine shops. Amongst the educational facilities it had was 3 primary schools, 2 middle schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 senior secondary schools. The nearest degree college was at Mankar 6 km away.
Transport
It is located on
Grand Trunk Road, and is near Mankar railway station on the
Bardhaman-
Durgapur
Durgapur () is a planned tier-II urban agglomeration and a major industrial city in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the fourth largest urban agglomeration after Kolkata, Asansol and Siliguri in West Be ...
stretch of the Howrah-Delhi track. The office of the Block Development Officer of
Galsi I block covering areas of Galsi and Bud Bud police stations is located at Bud Bud.
SH 14, running from Dubrajpur (in Birbhum district) to Betai (in Nadia district), passes through Bud Bud.
Culture
Shridhara Temple, temple of goddess Durga is well known in the area.
Health
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See also
* List of reduplicated place names
This is a list of places with reduplication in their names, often as a result of the grammatical rules of the languages from which the names are derived.
Duplicated names from the indigenous languages of Australia, Chile and New Zealand are l ...
Budbud -its history and culture
References
External links
Villages in Bardhaman District
{{Purba Bardhaman District
Cities and towns in Purba Bardhaman district