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Chaksatan Population - Maldah, West Bengal

Chaksatan is a medium size village located in Harischandrapur - II Block of Maldah district, West Bengal with total 319 families residing. The Chaksatan village has population of 1754 of which 913 are males while 841 are females as per Population Census 2011.

In Chaksatan village population of children with age 0-6 is 291 which makes up 16.59 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Chaksatan village is 921 which is lower than West Bengal state average of 950. Child Sex Ratio for the Chaksatan as per census is 1172, higher than West Bengal average of 956.

Chaksatan village has lower literacy rate compared to West Bengal. In 2011, literacy rate of Chaksatan village was 43.75 % compared to 76.26 % of West Bengal. In Chaksatan Male literacy stands at 54.94 % while female literacy rate was 30.99 %.

As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Chaksatan village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village. Our website, don't have information about schools and hospital in Chaksatan village.

Chaksatan Data

Particulars Total Male Female
Total No. of Houses 319 - -
Population 1,754 913 841
Child (0-6) 291 134 157
Schedule Caste 1,296 677 619
Schedule Tribe 0 0 0
Literacy 43.75 % 54.94 % 30.99 %
Total Workers 603 522 81
Main Worker 313 - -
Marginal Worker 290 234 56

Caste Factor

In Chaksatan village, most of the villagers are from Schedule Caste (SC). Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 73.89 % of total population in Chaksatan village. The village Chaksatan currently doesn’t have any Schedule Tribe (ST) population.

Work Profile

In Chaksatan village out of total population, 603 were engaged in work activities. 51.91 % of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 48.09 % were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 603 workers engaged in Main Work, 159 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 122 were Agricultural labourer.