Dihi Kalas is a

census town In India and some other countries, a census town is designated as a town that satisfies certain characteristics. India In India, a census town is one which is not statutorily notified and administered as a town, but nevertheless whose population ...

and a gram panchayat within the jurisdiction of the

Magrahat Magrahat is a census town and a gram panchayat within the jurisdiction of the Magrahat police station in the Magrahat II CD block in the Diamond Harbour subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. His ...

police station in the

Magrahat II Magrahat II is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Diamond Harbour subdivision of South 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas district in the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. Geogr ...

CD block in the

Diamond Harbour subdivision Diamond Harbour subdivision is an administrative subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Overview Diamond Harbour subdivision is a rural subdivision with patches of urbanization. Only 14.61% of the populat ...

of the

South 24 Parganas South 24 Parganas (Pron: pɔrɡɔnɔs; abbr. 24 PGS (S)), or sometimes South Twenty Four Parganas and Dakshin 24 Parganas, is a district in the Indian state of West Bengal, headquartered in Alipore previously, with its Zilla Parishad now in Ba ...

district in the

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Geography

Area overview

Diamond Harbour subdivision is a rural subdivision with patches of urbanization. Only 14.61% of the population lives in the urban areas and an overwhelming 85.39% lives in the rural areas. In the eastern portion of the subdivision (shown in the map alongside) there are 24

s. 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 ...

and the eastern part of the district is a flat plain area with small towns, many in clusters. Location of places in the larger map varies a little. It is an OpenStreetMap, while we are using coordinates as in Google Maps. 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

Dihi Kalas is located at

Uttar Kalas Uttar Kalas is a census town within the jurisdiction of the Magrahat police station in the Magrahat II CD block in the Diamond Harbour subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Area ov ...

, Dihi Kalas,

Swangrampur Swangrampur is a census town within the jurisdiction of the Magrahat police station in the Magrahat II CD block in the Diamond Harbour subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Area ov ...

and after a small gap

and

Bilandapur Bilandapur is a census town within the jurisdiction of the Magrahat police station in the Magrahat II CD block in the Diamond Harbour subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the India India, officially the Republic of I ...

form a cluster of census towns in the south-east corner of the Magrahat II CD block, as per the map of the Magrahat II CD block in the ''District Census Handbook'' for the South 24 Parganas.

Dhamua Dhamua is a census town and a gram panchayat within the jurisdiction of the Magrahat police station in the Magrahat II CD block in the Diamond Harbour subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Ge ...

, Shyampur and

Nainan Nainan is a census town and a gram panchayat within the jurisdiction of the Magrahat police station in the Magrahat II CD block in the Diamond Harbour subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Ge ...

form another cluster of census towns closeby in the Magrahat II CD block.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census of India, Dihi Kalas had a total population of 11,494 of which 5,906 (51%) were males and 5,588 (49%) were females. There were 1,779 persons in the age range of 0–6 years. The total number of literates in Dihi Kalas was 7,131 (73.40% of the population over 6 years).

Infrastructure

According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Dihi Kalash covered an area of 3.1646 km². Among the civic amenities, it had 13 km roads with open drains, the protected water supply involved overhead tank. It had 300 domestic electric connections. Among the medical facilities it had 1 maternity and child welfare centre, a dispensary/ health centre 1.5 km away, a family welfare centre 1.5 km away, a nursing home 0.45 km away, a veterinary hospital 1.5 km away and 1 medicine shop in the town. Among the educational facilities it had were 5 primary schools, the nearest secondary school, the nearest senior secondary school at

1 km away, the nearest general degree college at

3 km away. Important commodities it produced were: feather duster and embroidery. It had the branch of a nationalised bank.

Transport

Magra Hat railway station is located nearby.

Healthcare

Magrahat Rural Hospital, with 30 beds, at

, is the major government medical facility in the Magrahat II CD block.

References

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