Sangrampur is a village within the jurisdiction of the
Usthi police station in the
Magrahat I CD block
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in the
Diamond Harbour subdivision 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. It is the largest district of West Bengal by ...
district in the
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Geography
Sangrampur is located at . It has an average elevation of .
Demographics
Sangrampur is not identified as a separate place in 2011 cenus. It seems to be a part of Samashat mouza as per map of Magrahat I CD block on page 445 in the ''District Census Handbook'' for South 24 Parganas.
As per the
2011 Census of India, Samshat had a total population of 4,829, of which 2,436 (50%) were males and 2,393 (50%) were females. Population below 6 years was 782. The total number of literates in Samashat was 3,059 (75.59% of the population over 6 years).
Transport
Sangrampur is on the Usthi-Magrahat Road.
Sangrampur railway station
Sangrampur railway station is a Kolkata Suburban Railway Station on the Diamond Harbour Branch line. It is under the jurisdiction of the Sealdah railway division in the Eastern Railway zone of the Indian Railways. Sangrampur railway station i ...
is on the
Sealdah–Diamond Harbour line of the
Kolkata Suburban Railway
The Kolkata Suburban Railway is a suburban rail system serving the Kolkata metropolitan area and its surroundings in India. It is the largest suburban railway network in the country with the highest number of stations. It is also the 7th large ...
system.
Commuters
With the electrification of the railways, suburban traffic has grown tremendously since the 1960s. As of 2005-06, more than 1.7 million (17 lakhs) commuters use the
Kolkata Suburban Railway
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system daily. After the partition of India, refugees from East Pakistan/ Bangladesh had a strong impact on the development of urban areas in the periphery of Kolkata. The new immigrants depended on Kolkata for their livelihood, thus increasing the number of commuters. Eastern Railway runs 1,272 EMU trains daily.
2011 methanol tragedy
A methanol-tainted batch of illegal alcohol killed 143 people in India in December 2011, affecting mainly manual workers in Sangrampur.
Healthcare
Baneswarpur Rural Hospital, with 30 beds, at
Baneswarpur is the major government medical facility in Magrahat I CD block.
References
Villages in South 24 Parganas district
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