the class of total workers, cultivators numbered 27,941 and formed 28.82%, agricultural labourers numbered 41,817 and formed 43.13%, household industry workers numbered 5,167 and formed 5.33% and other workers numbered 22,024 and formed 22.72%. Total workers numbered 96,949 and formed 40.80% of the total population, and non-workers numbered 140,679 and formed 59.20% of the population. Note: In the census records a person is considered a cultivator, if the person is engaged in cultivation/ supervision of land owned by self/government/institution. When a person who works on another person’s land for wages in cash or kind or share, is regarded as an agricultural labourer. Household industry is defined as an industry conducted by one or more members of the family within the household or village, and one that does not qualify for registration as a factory under the Factories Act. Other workers are persons engaged in some economic activity other than cultivators, agricultural labourers and household workers. It includes factory, mining, plantation, transport and office workers, those engaged in business and commerce, teachers, entertainment artistes and so on. Infrastructure There are 198 inhabited villages in Gangrampur CD Block. All 198 villages (100%) have power supply. 195 villages (98.48%) have drinking water supply. 17 villages (8.59%) have post offices. 182 villages (91.82%) have telephones (including landlines, public call offices and mobile phones). 82 villages (41.41%) have a pucca (paved) approach road and 48 villages (24.24%) have transport communication (includes bus service, rail facility and navigable waterways). 12 villages (6.06%) have agricultural credit societies. 8 villages (4.04%) have banks. Agriculture The land is fertile for agricultural production, particularly in the southern part of the district. The rivers are flood-prone but droughts also occur occasionally. There are numerous tanks and some marshes and bils. Multiple cropping is widely practised. The Tebhaga movement by the share croppers, towards the end of British rule, is widely known. There are some forests, mostly in areas bordering Bangladesh. Gangarampur CD Block had 256 fertiliser depots, 14 seed stores and 39 fair price shops in 2013-14. In 2013-14, Gangarampur CD Block produced 62,971 tonnes of Aman paddy, the main winter crop from 23,945 hectares, 14,458 tonnes of Boro paddy (spring crop) from 4,448 hectares, 4 tonnes of Aus paddy (summer crop) from 2 hectares, 2,874 tonnes of wheat from 1,097 hectares, 36,120 tonnes of jute from 2,289 hectares and 24,217 tonnes of potatoes from 965 hectares. It also produced pulses