families in Purulia district. According to a World Bank report, as of 2012, 31-38% of the population in Purulia, Murshidabad and Uttar Dinajpur districts were below poverty level, the highest among the districts of West Bengal, which had an average 20% of the population below poverty line. Economy Livelihood In the Purulia II CD block in 2011, among the class of total workers, cultivators numbered 12,935 and formed 17.58%, agricultural labourers numbered 26,245 and formed 37.38%, household industry workers numbered 4,137 and formed 5.89% and other workers numbered 27,487 and formed 39.15%. Total workers numbered 70,212 and formed 41.43% of the total population, and non-workers numbered 99,276 and formed 58.56% 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 101 inhabited villages in the Purulia II CD block, as per the District Census Handbook, Puruliya, 2011. 100% villages have power supply. 95 villages (94.06%) have drinking water supply. 25 villages (24.75%) have post offices. 85 villages (84.16%) have telephones (including landlines, public call offices and mobile phones). 31 villages (30.69%) have pucca (paved) approach roads and 46 villages (45.54%) have transport communication (includes bus service, rail facility and navigable waterways). 4 villages (3.96%) have agricultural credit societies and 8 villages (7.92%) have banks. Agriculture In 2013-14, persons engaged in agriculture in the Purulia II CD block could be classified as follows: bargadars 2.24%, patta (document) holders 7.22%, small farmers (possessing land between 1 and 2 hectares) 3.61%, marginal farmers (possessing land up to 1 hectare) 19.00% and agricultural labourers 67.92%. In 2013-14, the total area irrigated in the Purulia II CD block was 7,221.37 hectares, out of which 2,378 hectares were by canals, 4,141.91 hectares by tank water, 49.66 hectares by river