Dariapur, Malda

Dariapur is a village in the Kaliachak III CD block in the Malda Sadar subdivision of Malda district in the state of West Bengal, India.

Location
Dariapur is located at 24.8232°N, 87.9886°W.

Baisnabnagar, with a police station, is located nearby.

Area overview
The area shown in the adjoining map is the physiographic sub-region known as the diara. It “is a relatively well drained flat land formed by the fluvial deposition of newer alluvium.” The most note-worthy feature is the Farakka Barrage across the Ganges. The area is a part of the Malda Sadar subdivision, which is an overwhelmingly rural region, but the area shown in the map has pockets of urbanization with 17 census towns, concentrated mostly in the Kaliachak I CD block. The bank of the Ganges between Bhutni and Panchanandapur (both the places are marked on the map), is the area worst hit by left bank erosion, a major problem in the Malda area. The ruins of Gauda, capital of several empires, is located in this area.

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.

CD block HQ
The headquarters of Kaliachak III CD block is at Dariapur.

Demographics
According to the 2011 Census of India, Dariapur had a total population of 6,249, of which 3,183 (51%) were males and 3,066 (49%) were females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 888. The total number of literate persons in Dariapur was 3,299 (61.54% of the population over 6 years).

Transport
A short stretch of Baisnabnagar Road links Dariapur to National Highway 12 (old number NH 34). There is a station at nearby Chamagram on the New Farakka-Malda section of Howrah-New Jalpaiguri line.

Education
Dariapur Baishi High Madrasa is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1953. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. It has a library with 2,040 books, and 5 computers for teaching and learning purposes.