Tarakeswar
Tarakeswar is a town in Hooghly district of West Bengal and serves as Nagar Parishad. It is also a Block, Subdivision and Panchayat Samiti of Hooghly district.
As on April 2024, the current population of Tarakeswar is 33.8 thousands out of which 17.5 thousands are males and rest 16.3 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 928 females per 1000 males. There are around 2.7 thousands teenagers in Tarakeswar. It has literacy rate of 77% which means around 25.9 thousands persons can read and write. Total 4.8 thousands people belonging to scheduled caste and 168 scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 7.3 thousands households in Tarakeswar, which means every family has 5 members on average. The town has working population of 14 thousands.
Schools
Tarakeswar has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- Adharmoni Dutta Vidyamandir
- Ramnagar N.B.P.C.High School
- Mozepur Bharati Vidyamandir
- Kshudrarampur High School
- Moheshpur High School
Tarakeswar Panchayat Samiti
Firdosh Parween is the President (Block Pramukh) of Panchayat Samiti Tarakeswar, who can be contacted at email address savapatitarakeswarps@gmail.com and mobile number 90518xxx78. The Block Development Officer (BDO) is Subrata Mallick, who can be reached at email address bdotarakeswar@gmail.com and mobile number 94347xxx50. The Block address is Sahapur Tarakeswar Hooghly, Pincode - 712410. You can reach there by taking a bus till Tarakeswar Bus Stand which is around 3 km away. Tarakeswar Panchayat Samiti consists of total 10 Gram Panchayat.
- Ashtaradattapur
- Baligori-I
- Baligori-II
- Bhanjipur
- Champadanga
- Kesabchak
- Naitamalpaharpur
- Purbaramnagar
- Santoshpur
- Talpur
Other villages in Tarakeswar Subdivision
Tarakeswar Subdivision has total 1 villages which are currently not mapped to any Gram Panchayat.