[1] Basirhat I CD Block is part of the Ichhamati-Raimangal Plain, one of the three physiographic regions in the district located in the lower Ganges Delta.

[6] As per 2011 Census of India Basirhat I CD Block had a total population of 171,613, of which 150,520 were rural and 21,093 were urban.

[7] Large villages in Basirhat I CD Block (2011 census figures in brackets): Pipha (5,700), Debhog (4,430), Gotra (5,894), Goknashri Gobindapur (4,110), Sangrampur (7,233), Merudandi (4,730), Akharpur (6,204), Gachha (6,489), Panitar (13,947), Hariharpur (4,477) and Kodalia (5,896).

[7] North 24 Parganas district is densely populated, mainly because of the influx of refugees from East Pakistan (later Bangladesh).

In the 2011 census Muslims numbered 141,617 and formed 68.54% of the population in Basirhat I CD Block.

[23] 31.32% of households in Basirhat I CD Block lived below poverty line in 2001, against an average of 29.28% in North 24 Parganas district.

[25] In more than 30 percent of the villages in North 24 Parganas, agriculture or household industry is no longer the major source of livelihood for the main workers there.

It includes factory, mining, plantation, transport and office workers, those engaged in business and commerce, teachers, entertainment artistes and so on.

[27] There are 59 inhabited villages in Basirhat I CD Block, as per the District Census Handbook: North 24 Parganas.

56 villages (94.92%) have telephones (including landlines, public call offices and mobile phones).

[29][30][31] The North 24 Parganas district Human Development Report opines that in spite of agricultural productivity in North 24 Parganas district being rather impressive 81.84% of rural population suffered from shortage of food.

With a high urbanisation of 54.3% in 2001, the land use pattern in the district is changing quite fast and the area under cultivation is declining.

In 2010-11, persons engaged in agriculture in Basirhat I CD Block could be classified as follows: bargadars 2,452 (8.62%), patta (document) holders 2,680 (9.42%), small farmers (possessing land between 1 and 2 hectares) 765 (2.69%), marginal farmers (possessing land up to 1 hectare) 13,000 (45.69%) and agricultural labourers 9,554 (33.58%).

[34] Basirhat I CD Block had 140 fertiliser depots, 46 seed stores and 3 fair price shops in 2010-11.

[34] In 2010-11, the net area under effective pisciculture in Basirhat I CD Block was 1,227.09 hectares.

[34] In 2010-11, Basirhat I CD Block had 1 ferry service and 16 originating/ terminating bus routes.

Basirhat I CD Block had 333 institutions for special and non-formal education with 14,911 students.

[37] Basirhat I block is one of the areas where ground water is affected by arsenic contamination.