CD Block-wise mean MHPI was estimated at 24.78. 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 Bhagabanpur II CD Block in 2011, total workers formed 37.81% of the total population and amongst the class of total workers, cultivators formed 16.28%, agricultural labourers 50.37%, household industry workers 3.37% and other workers 29.98.%. Infrastructure There are 167 inhabited villages in Bhagabanpur II CD block. All 167 villages (100%) have power supply. 160 villages (95.81%) have drinking water supply. 28 villages (16.77%) have post offices. 159 villages (95.21%) have telephones (including landlines, public call offices and mobile phones). 38 villages (22.75%) have a pucca (paved) approach road and 50 villages (29.94%) have transport communication (includes bus service, rail facility and navigable waterways). 40 villages (23.95%) have agricultural credit societies. 10 villages (5.99%) have banks. In 2007-08, around 40% of rural households in the district had electricity. In 2013-14, there were 46 fertiliser depots, 3 seed stores and 28 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 Bhagabanpur II CD Block was 9,216 hectares, out of which 630 hectares were irrigated by canal water, 2,695 hectares by tank water (there were 10,498 tanks in Bhagabanpur II CD Block), 5,729 hectares by deep tube well and 162 hectares by shallow tube well. Although the Bargadari Act of 1950 recognised the rights of bargadars to a higher share of crops from the land that