About Basishtapur Village

Basishtapur is a mid sized village in Jamalpur tehsil, in the district of Barddhaman, West Bengal. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,386, made up of 668 males and 718 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,075 females per 1000 males. The village covers 91.25 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 713401, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Basishtapur compares

By the 2011 count Basishtapur is the 71st largest of the 121 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 2,201 residents. Its 91.25 hectares work out to about 15 people per hectare, densely settled for a rural area. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 988.

Getting to Basishtapur

Basishtapur 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 Basishtapur as Available within <5 km distance. 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 Baidyabatipur, Balarampur, Ballabhbati and Bara Tikra. 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.