MAYURESWAR - II

Office Full Address

Village & PO - Kotasur, District - Birbhum, PIN - 731213

About Block

Mayureswar II is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Rampurhat subdivision of Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Mayureswar II CD Block is part of the Brahmani-Mayurakshi Basin, one of the four sub-micro physiographic regions occupying the area between Brahmani River in the north and Mayurakshi River in the south.

Mayureshwar II CD Block is bounded by Mayureswar I CD Block on the north, Burwan CD Block, in Murshidabad district, on the east, Labpur CD Block on the south and Sainthia CD Block on the west.

Mayureswar II CD Block has an area of 156.27 km2. It has 1 panchayat samity, 7 gram panchayats, 84 gram sansads (village councils), 131 mouzas and 126 inhabited villages, as per District Statistical Handbook Birbhum 2008. Mayureswar police station serves this block. Headquarters of this CD Block is at Kotasur.

Gram panchayats of Mayureswar II block/panchayat samiti are: Daspalsa, Dhekha, Kaleswar, Kundala, Mayureswar, Shatpalsa and Ulkunda.

As per the 2011 Census of India, Mayureshwar II CD Block had a total population of 127,661, all of which were rural. There were 65,373 (51%) males and 62,288 (49%) females. Population below 6 years was 15,171. Scheduled Castes numbered 39,160 (30.67%) and Scheduled Tribes numbered 9,090 (7.12%).

As per 2001 census, Mayureswar II block had a total population of 113,050, out of which 58,175 were males and 54,875 were females. Mayureswar II block registered a population growth of 14.40 per cent during the 1991-2001 decade. Decadal growth for Birbhum district was 17.88 per cent. Decadal growth in West Bengal was 17.84 per cent.

Large villages (with 4,000+ population) in Mayursehwar II CD Block are (2011 census figures in brackets): Mayureswar (11,142), Kotasur (4,302) and Kanutia (6,572).

Other villages in Mayureshwar II CD Block include (2011 census figures in brackets): Ulkunda (2,704) Satpalsa (963), Daspalsa (1,621), Kundala (1,723), Kaleswar (1,333) and Dheka (539).

As per the 2011 census the total number of literates in Mayureswar II CD Block was 79,749 (70.89% of the population over 6 years) out of which males numbered 45,028 (78.12% of the male population over 6 years) and females numbered 34,721 (63.31% of the female population over 6 years). The gender disparity (the difference between female and male literacy rates) was 14.81%

As per census definition, mother-tongue is the language spoken in childhood by the person’s mother to the person. As a mother-tongue, Bengali has increased its share from 90.5% of the population of Birbhum district in 1961 to 91.9% in 2001, Santali has decreased from 6.9% in 1961 to 5.9% in 2001. Other mother-tongues spoken in 2001 were: Hindi (1.2%), Khortha/ Khotta (0.3%), Koda/Kora (0.2%), Telugu (0.1%) and Kurukh/ Oraon (0.1%).

In the 2011 census, Hindus numbered 94,544 and formed 74.06% of the population in Mayureswar II CD Block. Muslims numbered 32,741 and formed 25.65% of the population. Christians numbered 202 and formed 0.16% of the population. Others numbered 174 and formed 0.14% of the population.

The proportion of Hindus in Birbhum district has declined from 72.2% in 1961 to 62.3% in 2011. The proportion of Muslims in Birbhum district has increased from 27.6% to 37.1% during the same period. Christians formed 0.3% in 2011.