Mather Dighi is a village and a gram panchayat within the jurisdiction of the

Jibantala Jibantala is a village within the jurisdiction of the Jibantala police station in the Canning II CD block in the Canning subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Area overview Canning sub ...

police station in the

Canning II Canning II is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Canning subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Canning II CD block is located at . It has an average elevat ...

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

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

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

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

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

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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

Mather Dighi is located at .

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census of India, Mather Dighi had a total population of 13,524, of which 6,836 (51%) were males and 6,688 (49%) were females. There were 2,247 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate persons in Mather Dighi was 8,258 (73.22% of the population over 6 years).

Transport

A stretch of a local road links Mather Dighi to the State Highway 3 (locally popular as the Basanti Highway).

Education

Mather Dighi High School is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1948. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII.

Healthcare

Mather Dighi Rural Hospital, with 30 beds, is the major government medical facility in the Canning II CD block.

References

{{South 24 Parganas District Villages in South 24 Parganas district