About Benda Village

Benda is a small village in Patrasayer tehsil, in the district of Bankura, West Bengal. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 306, made up of 157 males and 149 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 949 females per 1000 males. The village covers 70.52 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 722206, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Benda compares

By the 2011 count Benda is the 130th largest of the 149 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 1,226 residents. Its 70.52 hectares work out to about 4.3 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, a little below the tehsil average of 973.

Getting to Benda

Benda is well connected by rural standards, with buses in the village itself and a railway station close by. The census records public bus service for Benda as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within village. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within <5 km distance. The nearest villages by name are Baraban, Barasat, Barujpota and Belgaria. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

Source: Census of India 2011, the most recent completed census. Figures have not been revised since collection. Read more on our about the data page.