Block. Muslims numbered 30,390 and formed 15.25% of the population. Others numbered 178 and formed 0.09% of the population. Rural poverty The District Human Development Report for Purba Medinipur has provided a CD Block-wise data table for Modified Human Poverty Index of the district. Sahid Matangini CD Block registered 23.77 on the MHPI scale. The CD Block-wise mean MHPI was estimated at 24.9. Eleven out of twentyfive CD Blocks were found to be severely deprived in respect of grand CD Block average value of MHPI (CD Blocks with lower amount of poverty are better): All the CD Blocks of Haldia and Contai subdivisions appeared backward, except Ramnagar I & II, of all the blocks of Egra subdivision only Bhagabanpur I appeared backward and in Tamluk subdivision none appeared backward. Economy Livelihood In Sahid Matangini CD Block in 2011, total workers formed 36.52% of the total population and amongst the class of total workers, cultivators formed 12.21%, agricultural labourers 25.52%, household industry workers 8.67% and other workers 53.60%. Infrastructure There are 81 inhabited villages in Sahid Matangini CD block. All 81 villages (100%) have power supply. All 81 villages (100%) have drinking water supply. 14 villages (17.28%) have post offices. 69 villages (85.19%) have telephones (including landlines, public call offices and mobile phones). 18 villages (22.22%) have a pucca (paved) approach road and 33 villages (43.74%) have transport communication (includes bus service, rail facility and navigable waterways). 15 villages (18.52%) have agricultural credit societies. 6 villages (7.41%) have banks. In 2007-08, around 40% of rural households in the district had electricity. In 2013-14, there were 31 fertiliser depots, 9 seed stores and 39 fair price shops in the CD Block. Agriculture According to the District Human Development Report of Purba Medinipur: The agricultural sector is the lifeline of a predominantly rural economy. It is largely dependent on the Low Capacity Deep Tubewells (around 50%) or High Capacity Deep Tubewells (around 27%) for irrigation, as the district does not have a good network of canals, compared to some of the neighbouring districts. In many cases the canals are drainage canals which get the backflow of river water at times of high tide or the rainy season. The average size of land holding in Purba Medinipur, in 2005-06, was 0.73 hectares against 1.01 hectares in West Bengal. In 2013-14, the total area irrigated in Sahid Matangini CD Block was 5,315 hectares, out 695