Haldia
Haldia is a town in Medinipur East district of West Bengal and serves as Nagar Parishad. It is also a Block, Subdivision and Panchayat Samiti of Medinipur East district.
As on December 2024, the current population of Haldia is 2.2 lakhs out of which 1.15 lakhs are males and rest 1.05 lakhs are females. The sex ratio of this town is 916 females per 1000 males. There are around 21.9 thousands teenagers in Haldia. It has literacy rate of 79% which means around 1.73 lakhs persons can read and write. Total 40.5 thousands people belonging to scheduled caste and 1.7 thousands scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 48.3 thousands households in Haldia, which means every family has 5 members on average. The town has working population of 67 thousands.
Schools
Haldia has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- Bhavan's Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Vidyaniketan
- Barsundra High School
- Barsuklalchak High School
- Sapuya High School
- Dakshinchak High School
Haldia Panchayat Samiti
Subrata Kumar Hajra is the President (Block Pramukh) of Panchayat Samiti Haldia, who can be contacted at email address subratakrhajra06@gmail.com and mobile number 93323xxx44. The Block Development Officer (BDO) is Dilip Kumar Mondal, who can be reached at email address bdo.haldia@gmail.com and mobile number 74328xxx35. The Block address is Brajalalchak, P.O.-Dakshinchak, P.S.-Bhabanipur, Pincode - 721654. You can reach there by taking a bus till Brajalalchak bus stop which is less than a km away. Haldia Panchayat Samiti consists of total 4 Gram Panchayat.