Tengra Khali is a village within the jurisdiction of the

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police station in the

Canning I Canning I 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 I CD block is located at . It has an average elevatio ...

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 the 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

Tengra Khali is located at

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census of India, Tengra Khali had a total population of 1, 221 of which 641 (52%) were males and 580 (48%) were females. There were 110 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate persons in Tengra Khali was 839 (75.52% of the population over 6 years).

Transport

Baruipur-Canning Road links Tengra Khali to the

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. Canning railway station is located nearby.

Education

Bankim Sardar College, established in 1955, is affiliated with the

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. It offers honours courses in English, Bengali, Sanskrit, history, political science, education, physics, botany, zoology, B.Com. Hons., general courses in arts, science, commerce and post graduation in Bengali. Tengra Khali PJP School is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1949.

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 Villages in South 24 Parganas district