Ramkrishnapur, Bishnupur

Ramkrishnapur is a census town and a gram panchayat within the jurisdiction of the Bishnupur police station in the Bishnupur II CD block in the Alipore Sadar subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Area overview
The Alipore Sadar subdivision is the most urbanized part of the South 24 Parganas district. 59.85% of the population lives in the urban areas and 40.15% lives in the rural areas. In the southern portion of the subdivision (shown in the map alongside) there are 15 census towns. The entire district is situated in the Ganges Delta and the subdivision, on the east bank of the Hooghly River, is an alluvial stretch, with industrial development.

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
Ramkrishnapur is located at 22.3574°N, 88.2583°W. It has an average elevation of 9 m.

Bishnupur, Kanyanagar, Amtala, Ramkrishnapur, Kriparampur and Chak Enayetnagar (a little away) form a cluster of census towns, as per the map of the Bishnupur I CD block on page 207 and the map of the Bishnupur II CD block on page 233 of the District Census Handbook 2011 for the South 24 Parganas.

Demographics
According to the 2011 Census of India, Ramkrishnapur had a total population of 5,971, of which 3,013 (50%) were males and 2,958 (50%) were females. There were 536 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Ramkrishnapur was 4,879 (89.77% of the population over 6 years).

Infrastructure
According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Ramkrishnapur covered an area of 3.6103 km2. Among the civic amenities, it had 3 km roads with open drains. The protected water supply involved over-head tank. It had 900 domestic electric connections and 100 road light points. Among the medical facilities it had 1 hospital, 1 maternity home, 1 veterinary hospital, 3 charitable hospitals/ nursing homes and 25 medicine shops. Among the educational facilities it had was 1 middle school.

Transport
Ramkrishnapur is on the National Highway 12.

Education
Ramkrishnapur Sarada Vidyamandir is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution, established in 1940. It has arrangements for teaching from class V to class X.

Healthcare
Amtala Rural Hospital, with 50 beds, at Amtala, is the major government medical facility in the Bishnupur II CD block.