Dighirpar is a

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and a gram panchayat within the jurisdiction of the

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police station in the Canning I CD block in the

Canning subdivision Canning subdivision is an administrative subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Overview Canning subdivision has a very low level of urbanization. Only 12.37% of the population lives in the urban areas a ...

of the

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district in the

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Geography

Area overview

Canning subdivision has a very low level of urbanization. Only 12.37% of the population lives in the urban areas and 87.63% lives in the rural areas. There are 8

s in Canning I CD block and only 2 in the rest of the subdivision. The entire district is situated in the

Ganges Delta The Ganges Delta (also known the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, the Sundarbans Delta or the Bengal Delta) is a river delta predominantly covering the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, consisting of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Be ...

with numerous islands in the southern part of the region. The area (shown in the map alongside) borders on the

Sundarbans National Park Sundarbans National Park is a national park in West Bengal, India, and core part of tiger reserve and Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve, biosphere reserve. It is part of the Sundarbans on the Ganges Delta and adjacent to the Sundarban Reserve Fores ...

and a major portion of it is a part of the

Sundarbans settlements Sundarbans (; pronounced ) is a mangrove forest area in the Ganges Delta formed by the confluence of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers in the Bay of Bengal. It spans the area from the Hooghly River in India's state of West Bengal to t ...

. It is a flat low-lying area in the South Bidyadhari plains. The Matla River is prominent and there are many streams and water channels locally known as ''khals''. A comparatively recent country-wide development is the guarding of the coastal areas with a special coastal force. 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.

Location

Dighirpar is located at Rajapur,

Taldi Taldi is a census town and a gram panchayat in the Canning I CD block in the Canning subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Area overview Canning subdivision has a very low level of urb ...

Bayarsingh Bayarsing is a census town within the jurisdiction of the Canning police station in the Canning I CD block in the Canning subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Area overview Canning subd ...

Matla In Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry, the matla (from Arabic ; ; ; ; ; ) is the first '' bayt'', or couplet, of a ''ghazal''. In this sense, it is the opposite of the ''maqta. It is possible, although extremely rare, for there to be more than one ...

and Dighirpar form a cluster of census towns in Canning I CD block, as per the map of the Canning I CD block on page 333 of the ''District Census Handbook'' 2011.

is not identified as a separate place in the 2011 census records. The map of CD block Canning I in the ''District Census Handbook'' for the South 24 Parganas shows Canning as being a part of

and Dighirpar census towns.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census of India, Dighirpar had a total population of 15,881, of which 8,106 (51%) were males and 7,775 (49%) were females. There were 1,509 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate persons in Dighirpar was 11,453 (86.65% of the population over 6 years).

Infrastructure

According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Dighirpar covered an area of 2.7742 km². Among the civic amenities, it had 3 km roads with open drain, the protected water supply involved overhead tank and service reservoir. It had 1,524 domestic electric connections. Among the medical facilities it had were 2 dispensaries/ health centres, 1 nursing home and 6 medicine shops. Among the educational facilities it had were 10 primary schools, 2 middle school, 1 secondary school.

Transport

Baruipur-Canning Road links Dighirpar to the

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Canning railway station is located nearby.

Education

De Paul School is a Bengali-medium coeducational school at Dighirpar. It was established in 2008 and has facilities for teaching from class I to class VIII.

Healthcare

Ghutiari Sharif Block Primary Health Centre at Ghutiari Sharif, with 10 beds, is the major government medical facility in the Canning I CD block.

References

{{South 24 Parganas topics Cities and towns in South 24 Parganas district