Chhatinamor

Chhatinamor is a census town in the Old Malda CD block in the Malda Sadar subdivision of Malda district in the state of West Bengal, India.

Location
Chhatinamor is located at 25.00336°N, 88.15976°W.

Area overview
The area shown in the adjacent map covers two physiographic regions – the Barind in the east and the tal in the west. The eastern part is comparatively high (up to 40 metres above mean sea level at places) and uneven. The soils of the eastern region are "hard salty clays of a reddish hue and the ground is baked hard as iron." It lies to the east of the Mahananda River. The area lying to the west of the Mahananda River, the tal, is a flat low land and "is strewn with innumerable marshes, bils and oxbow lakes." The tal area is prone to flooding by local rivers. The total area is overwhelmingly rural. There are two important historical/ archaeological sites in the area – Pandua and Jagjivanpur.

Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the area. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

Demographics
According to the 2011 Census of India, Chhatinamor had a total population of 5,582, of which 2,856 (51%) were males and 2,726 (49%) were females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 652. The total number of literate persons in Chhatinamor was 3,772 (76.51% of the population over 6 years).

Infrastructure
According to the District Census Handbook, Maldah, 2011, Chhatinamor covered an area of 0.522 km2. The protected water-supply involved overhead tank, tube well/ bore well, hand pump. It had 471 domestic electric connections. Among the medical facilities it had 1 dispensary/ health centre, 1 maternity and child welfare centre, 8 medicine shops. Among the educational facilities, it had 3 primary schools, 1 middle school, 1 secondary school, 1 senior secondary school in town. The nearest general degree college at Malda 4 km away. It produced beedi, steel. It had branch office of 1 private commercial bank.