Kharagpur II
Community Development Block, West Bengal, India
Kharagpur II is a community development block that forms an administrative division in the Kharagpur subdivision of Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Kharagpur police station serves this block. Headquarters of this block is at Madpur.
Geography
In the Kharagpur II CD block, 65% of the cultivated area has lateritic soil and 35% has alluvial soil.
Madpur, headquarters of Kharagpur II block, is located at 22°21′44″N 87°25′35″E.
Kharagpur II CD block is bounded by Midnapore Sadar CD block in the north, Debra and Pingla CD blocks in the east, Narayangarh CD block in the south and Kharagpur I CD blocks in the west.
It is located 12 km from Midnapore, the district headquarters.
Kharagpur II CD block has an area of 265.63 km2. It has 1 panchayat samity, 9 gram panchayats, 129 gram sansads (village councils), 353 mouzas and 330 inhabited villages. Kharagpur (Local) police station serves this block. Headquarters of this CD block is at Madpur.
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