Panchla (community development block)

Panchla is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Howrah Sadar subdivision of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Panchla is located at 22°32′N 88°08′E / 22.54°N 88.14°E / 22.54; 88.14.

Panchla CD Block is bounded by Jagatballavpur CD Block in the north and west, Domjur and Sankrail CD Blocks in the east and Uluberia I and Uluberia II CD Blocks in the south.

It is located 10 km from Howrah, the district headquarters.

Panchla CD Block has an area of 53.42  km². Panchla Police Station serves this CD Block. Panchla panchayat samity has 11 gram panchayats. The block has 26 inhabited villages. Headquarters of this block is at Bikihakola.

Howrah district is located on the west bank of the Hooghly. The Rupnarayan flows on the west and south of the district and the Damodar intersects it. The district consists of a flat alluvial plain.

Gram panchayats of Panchla block/panchayat samiti are: Banharishpur, Beldubi, Bikihakola, Chara–Panchla, Deulpur, Gangadharpur, Jalabiswanathpur, Jujarsaha, Panchla, Sahapur and Suvarara.

Rural population is 49.63% of the total population of Howrah district as per 2001 census. Scheduled castes account for 15.41% of the population, scheduled tribes 0.44% and Muslims 24.4% of the population. As the economy is prevalently industrial, majority of the population depends on industries for a living. Only 30% of the population is engaged in cultivation.