Gangarampur is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Gangarampur subdivision of Dakshin Dinajpur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.34 Dinajpur district was constituted in 1786.

In 1947, the Radcliffe Line placed the Sadar and Thakurgaon subdivisions of Dinajpur district in East Pakistan.

In order to restore territorial links between northern and southern parts of West Bengal which had been snapped during the partition of Bengal, and on the recommendations of the States Reorganisation Commission a portion of the erstwhile Kishanganj subdivision comprising Goalpokhar, Islampur and Chopra thanas (police stations) and parts of Thakurganj thana, along with the adjacent parts of the erstwhile Gopalpur thana in Katihar subdivision were transferred from Purnea district in Bihar to West Bengal in 1956, and were formally incorporated into Raiganj subdivision in West Dinajpur.

Dakshin Dinajpur district is physiographically a part of the Barind Tract.

All rivers, flowing from north to south, overflow during the monsoons and cause floods.

[8] Approximately 252 km of the international border is in Dakshin Dinajpur district.

[11][12] Gram panchayats of Gangrampur block/ panchayat samiti are: Asokgram, Basuria, Belbari I, Belbari II, Chaloon, Damdama, Gangarampur, Jahangirpur, Nandanpur, Sukdevpur and Uday.

[13] As per 2011 Census of India, Gangarampur CD Block had a total population of 237,628, of which 230,612 were rural and 7,016 were urban.

[15] The only census town in Gangarampur CD Block was (2011 population in brackets): Gopalpur (7,016).

[17] The large scale migration of the East Bengali refugees (including tribals) started with the partition of Bengal in 1947.

The steady flow of people into Dakshin Dinajpur has continued over the years from erstwhile East Pakistan and subsequently from Bangladesh.

The gender disparity (the difference between female and male literacy rates) was 11.56%.

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

182 villages (91.82%) have telephones (including landlines, public call offices and mobile phones).

The Tebhaga movement by the share croppers, towards the end of British rule, is widely known.

[29] Gangarampur CD Block had 256 fertiliser depots, 14 seed stores and 39 fair price shops in 2013–14.

The fund, created by the Government of India, is designed to redress regional imbalances in development.

[31][32] Gangarmpur CD Block has 7 ferry services and 10 originating/ terminating bus routes.

[35] In 2014, Gangrampur CD Block had 2 primary health centres and 2 private/ NGO nursing homes with total 37 beds and 1 doctor (excluding private bodies).

168,135 patients were treated outdoor in the hospitals, health centres and subcentres of the CD Block.

Gangarampur has a hospital and 3 private/ NGO nursing homes with total 300 beds and 22 doctors (excluding private bodies) (outside the CD Block).