Kandi is a town and a municipality

Municipality

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 in Murshidabad district

Murshidabad district

Murshidabad district is a district of West Bengal in eastern India. Situated on the left bank of the river Ganges, the district is very fertile. Covering an area of 5,341 km² and having a population 5.863m it is a densely populated district and the ninth most populous in India...

 in the India

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n state

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 of West Bengal

West Bengal

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. It is headquarters of Kandi subdivision

Kandi subdivision

Kandi subdivision , is a subdivision of the Murshidabad district in the state of West Bengal, India. It consists of Kandi municipality and five community development blocks: Kandi, Khargram, Burwan, Bharatpur–I and Bharatpur–II. The five blocks contain 50 gram panchayats...

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Geography

Kandi is located at 23.95°N 88.03°E. It has an average elevation of 20 metres (65 feet).

Kandi is a small sub-divisional agricultural town in the district of Murshidabad, West Bengal.

The town and surrounding areas become water-logged during monsoon season.

Education

There are few educational establishments in this tiny place including Kandi Raj College, College of Commerce, Kandi Raj High School, Kandi MC Girls school,Bimal Chandra College of Law etc. The educational revolution of this place started while the theatre owned by the Zamindars of the Kandi Raj family converted into a school under the leadership of Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar.

Currently, female education has picked up momentum. There are many educational libraries, sporting clubs in neighbouring villages.

Health

There is a government hospital in the heart of the town and neighbouring people visit for their medical treatment.

Personalities

The town is proud to be associated with various wellknown personalities including Ramendra Sundar Trivedi, Bimal Sinha, Jagadish Sinha (politician), Byomkes Chakrabarti

Byomkes Chakrabarti

Dr. Byomkes Chakrabarti was a Bengali research worker on ethnic languages. He was also a renowned educationist and a poet. His major contribution to linguistics was in finding out some basic relationship between Santali and the Bengali language...

 (linguist & educationist), Sarat Chandra Pandit (Dada Thakur), Atish Chandra Sinha

Atish Chandra Sinha

Atish Chandra Sinha was a former minister and Leader of the Opposition in the Indian state of West Bengal. Physicist Bikash Sinha is his cousin.-Early life:...

, Dr Birendra Kumar Chakraborty.

Demographics

India census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, Kandi had a population of 50,345. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Kandi has an average literacy rate of 65%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 70%, and female literacy is 60%. In Kandi, 14% of the population is under 6 years of age.