Petua

Petua is a census town within the jurisdiction of the Baruipur police station in the Baruipur CD block in the Baruipur subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Area overview
Baruipur subdivision is a rural subdivision with moderate levels of urbanization. 31.05% of the population lives in the urban areas and 68.95% lives in the rural areas. In the southern portion of the subdivision (shown in the map alongside) there are 20 census towns. The entire district is situated in the Ganges Delta and the southern part is covered by the Baruipur-Jaynagar Plain. Archaeological excavations at Dhosa and Tilpi, on the bank of the Piyali River indicate the existence of human habitation around 2,000 years ago.

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

Location
Petua is located at 22.4143°N, 88.4489°W. It has an average elevation of 9 m.

Petua, Panchghara, Mallikpur and Hariharpur form a cluster of census towns in the Baruipur CD block, as per the map of the Baruipur CD block in the District Census Handbook for the South 24 Parganas. This cluster has Rajpur Sonarpur on the east and Bidyadharpur on the north, both in the Sonarpur CD block, as per the map of the Sonarpur CD block in the District Census Handbook for the South 24 Parganas.

Demographics
According to the 2011 Census of India, Petua had a total population of 9,596, of which 4,896 (51%) were males and 4,700 (49%) were females. There were 936 people in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate persons in Petua was 6,785 (78.35% of the population over 6 years).

Infrastructure
According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Petua covered an area of 1.2617 km2. Among the civic amenities, it had 12 km roads with open drains, the protected water supply involved tap water from treated source and covered wells. It had 3,750 domestic electric connections and 125 road light points. Among the educational facilities it had were 6 primary schools, the nearest middle school was at Faridpur 4 km away and the nearest secondary school at Mallikpur, 5 km away. It had the branch of 1 nationalised bank.

Transport
Subhashgram-Champahati Road links Petua to the State Highway 1.

Subhashgram railway station is located nearby.

Education
Subhasgram Nabatara Vidyalaya is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution, established in 1962. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII.

Healthcare
Hariharpur Block Primary Health Centre, with 10 beds, at Hariharpur (PO Mallikpur), is the major government medical facility in the Baruipur CD block.