The Ichhamati, the second most important river in the district after the Hooghly "flows south easterly meandering course over C.D.

Blocks like Bagda, Bongaon and Basirhat-I and Basirhat-II and thus forms the international boundary with Bangladesh."

[1] The area shown in the map is a part of the Ichhamati-Raimangal Plain, located in the lower Ganges Delta.

The tip of the Sundarbans National Park is visible in the lower part of the map (shown in green but not marked).

Each floating outpost is crewed by 34 specially trained BSF personnel and are provided with the latest electronic surveillance gadgets and speed boats.

More such floating outposts are being added to provide BSF with a strategic edge in guarding a porous border in one of the most thickly populated regions of the world.

Lebukhali, the last point up to which motorised transport (except 2 wheeler) can reach is now directly connected to Kolkata and other places.