Panchla is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Howrah Sadar subdivision of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Panchla is located at . Panchla CD Block is bounded by Jagatballavpur CD Block in the north and west, Domjur and Sankrail CD Blocks in the east and Uluberia I and Uluberia II CD Blocks in the south. It is located 10 km from Howrah, the district headquarters. Area and administration Panchla CD Block has an area of 53.42 km2. Panchla Police Station serves this CD Block. Panchla panchayat samity has 11 gram panchayats. The block has 26 inhabited villages. Headquarters of this block is at Bikihakola. Topography Howrah district is located on the west bank of the Hooghly. The Rupnarayan flows on the west and south of the district and the Damodar intersects it. The district consists of a flat alluvial plain. Gram panchayats Gram panchayats of Panchla block/panchayat samiti are: Banharishpur, Beldubi, Bikihakola, Chara–Panchla, Deulpur, Gangadharpur, Jalabiswanathpur, Jujarsaha, Panchla, Sahapur and Suvarara. Demographics Overview Rural population is 49.63% of the total population of Howrah district as per 2001 census. Scheduled castes account for 15.41% of the population, scheduled tribes 0.44% and Muslims 24.4% of the population. As the economy is prevalently industrial, majority of the population depends on industries for a living. Only 30% of the population is engaged in cultivation. Population As per 2011 Census of India Panchla CD Block had a total population of 251,930, of which 43,087 were rural and 208,843 were urban. There were 129,160 (51%) males and 122,770 (49%) females. Population below 6 years was 32,043. Scheduled Castes numbered 44,475 and Scheduled Tribes numbered 75. As per 2001 census, Panchla block had a total population of 213,893, out of which 109,229 were males and 104,664 were females. Panchla block registered a population growth of 15.92 per cent during the 1991-2001 decade. Decadal growth for Howrah district was 12.76 per cent. Scheduled castes at 45,946 formed around one-fourth the population. Scheduled tribes numbered 1,093. Decadal growth in West Bengal was 17.84 per cent. Census Towns and large villages Census Towns in Panchla CD Block (2011 census figures in brackets): Kuldanga (7,742), Gondalpara (4,474), Khasjalalsi (5,111), Deulpur (12,618), Kusadanga (5,434), Gangadharpur (7,533), Jujarsaha (21,820), Shuvararah (14,330), Mallikbagan (8,869), Jaynagar (6,977), Jala Kendua (6,658), Beldubi (10,871), Paniara (7,787), Bikihakola (14,540), Gabberia (5,823), Dhunki (9,784), Ban Harishpur (16,064), Paschim Panchla