Cooch Behar I is an administrative division in Cooch Behar Sadar subdivision

Cooch Behar Sadar subdivision

Cooch Behar Sadar subdivision is a subdivision of the Cooch Behar district in the state of West Bengal, India. It consists of Cooch Behar municipality and two community development blocs: Cooch Behar–I and Cooch Behar–II. The two blocks contain 28 gram panchayats and three census towns...

 of Cooch Behar district

Cooch Behar District

Cooch Behar district is a district of the state of West Bengal, India, as well as the district's namesake town. During the British Raj, the town of Cooch Behar was the seat of a princely state of Koch Bihar, ruled by the Koch dynasty....

 in the India

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 of West Bengal

West Bengal

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. Koch Bihar police station serves this block. Headquarters of this block is at Ghugumari. There are two census towns in this block: Kharimala Khagrabari

Kharimala Khagrabari

Kharimala Khagrabari is a census town in Koch Bihar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.-Demographics:As of the 2001 India census, Kharimala Khagrabari had a population of 7214. Males and females each constituted 50% of the population...

 and Guriahati

Guriahati

Guriahati is a census town in Koch Bihar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.-Demographics: India census, Guriahati had a population of 18,896. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Guriahati has an average literacy rate of 73%, higher than the national average of 59.5%:...

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Geography

Guriahati, one of the constituenct panchayats of the block, is located at 26.3097000°N 89.4862590°E.

Cooch Behar I community development block

Community Development Block in India

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 has an area of 362.42  km².

Gram panchayats

Gram panchayat

Gram panchayat

Gram panchayats are local self-governments at the village or small town level in India. As of 2002 there were about 265,000 gram panchayats in India. The gram panchayat is the foundation of the Panchayat System. A gram panchayat can be set up in villages with minimum population of 300...

s of Cooch Behar I block/ panchayat samiti are: Chandamari, Chikirhat, Dawaguri, Dewanhat, Falimari, Ghugumari, Guriahati I, Guriahati II, Haribhanga, Jiranpur, Moamari, Panishala, Patchhara, Putimari Fuleswari and Suktabari.

Demographics

As per 2001 census, Cooch Behar I block had a total population of 284,564, out of which 146,298 were males and 138,266 were females. Cooch Behar I block registered a population growth of 14.79 per cent during the 1991-2001 decade. Decadal growth for the district was 14.15 per cent.Decadal growth in West Bengal was 17.84 per cent.

Lliteracy

Cooch Behar I block had a literacy rate of 67.98 per cent - males 77.41 per cent and females 57.99 per cent.