Nurpur, Murshidabad

Nurpur
Village
Nurpur Location in West Bengal, India
Coordinates: 24°17′38″N88°11′10″E / 24.294°N 88.186°E / 24.294; 88.186 Coordinates: 24°17′38″N88°11′10″E / 24.294°N 88.186°E / 24.294; 88.186
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Murshidabad
Languages
• Official	Bengali,Hindi, English
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	742223
ISO 3166 code	IN-WB
Lok Sabha constituency	Jangipur
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Raghunathganj
Website	murshidabad.nic.in

Nurpur is a village and gram panchayat in Murshidabad district in the state of West Bengal, India. Nurpur Gram panchayats in Suti I community development block.

Geography

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Cities, towns and locations in the southern portion of Jangipur subdivision, Murshidabad district (including Suti I, Raghunathganj I, Raghunathganj II, Sagardighi CD blocks)
M: municipal town, CT: census town, R: rural/ urban centre, F: Facility
Abbreviation- TPS: Thermal Power Station, AMU: Aligarh Muslim University
Owing to space constraints in the small map, the actual locations in a larger map may vary slightly

Location

Nurpur is located at 24°17′38″N88°11′10″E / 24.294°N 88.186°E / 24.294; 88.186 . Nurpur area of Suti 1 block is near Bangladesh International Border and Padma river. Indian Border Guard BSF ^[1] patrols the Nurpur area 24x7, it is a protected area.

Area overview

Jangipur subdivision is crowded with 52 census towns and as such it had to be presented in two location maps. One of the maps can be seen alongside. The subdivision is located in the Rarh region that is spread over from adjoining Santhal Pargana division of Jharkhand. The land is slightly higher in altitude than the surrounding plains and is gently undulating. ^{[2] [3]} The river Ganges, along with its distributaries, is prominent in both the maps. At the head of the subdivision is the 2,245 m long Farakka Barrage, one of the largest projects of its kind in the country. ^[4] Murshidabad district shares with Bangladesh a porous international border which is notoriously crime prone (partly shown in this map). ^[5] The subdivision has two large power plants - the 2,100 MW Farakka Super Thermal Power Station and the 1,600 MW Sagardighi Thermal Power Station. ^{[6] [7]} According to a 2016 report, there are around 1,000,000 (1 million/ ten lakh) workers engaged in the beedi industry in Jangipur subdivision. 90% are home-based and 70% of the home-based workers are women. ^{[8] [9] [10]} As of 2013, an estimated 2.4 million people reside along the banks of the Ganges alone in Murshidabad district. Severe erosion occurs along the banks. ^[11]

Note: The two maps present some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the maps are linked in the larger full screen maps.

Transport

Nurpur is connected by bus service towards Azimganj town and the nearest railway stations are Mahipal railway station and Mahipal Road railway station in Farakka - Azimganj line.

Educational Institutes

Schools

• Gotha A. Rahman High School.

References

1. "Construction Of Road From Madna To Nurpur BSF Camp In Block Suti-I At Murshidabad, Border Road Organizations".
2. "District Census Handbook: Murshidabad, Series 20 Part XII A" (PDF). Physiography, Page 13. Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal, 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
3. "Murshidabad". Geography. Murshidabad district authorities. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
4. "Farakka Barrage Project". FBP. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
5. "Child labour, illness & lost childhoods, India's tobacco industry". Edge of Humanity Magazine, 27 December 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
6. "Power Generation". Farakka. NTPC. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
7. "The West Bengal Power Development Corporation Limited". Sagardighi Thermal Power Project. WBPDCL. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
8. Kar, Sunirmal. "Child workers in household industry: a study of beedi industry in Murshidabad district of West Bengal" (PDF). Viswa Bharati University thesis, page 5. Shodhganga. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
9. "The 'Poor man's cigarette'". Gurvinder Singh. The Statesman, 22 January 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
10. "Beedi workers of Jangipur hold key". Indrani Dutta. The Hindu, 1 May 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
11. "Types and sources of floods in Murshidabad, West Bengal" (PDF). Swati Mollah. Indian Journal of Applied Research, February 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 August 2017. Retrieved 5 September 2017.