Hasnabad is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Basirhat subdivision of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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

[5] The Sundarbans is a flat lowland susceptible to the tidal waves along the 260 km shoreline of the Bay of Bengal.

The area is prone to natural calamities such as cyclones, thunderstorms with occasional hail and floods.

[6] In May 2009, the district was hit by high speed cyclone named Aila and subsequent rainfall which continued for two days.

[6] Six CD Blocks of North 24 Parganas are included in the Sundabans area – Hingalganj, Hasnabad, Sandeskhali I and II, Minakhan and Haora.

[7] As per 2011 Census of India Hasnabad CD Block had a total population of 203,262, of which 197,014 were rural and 6,248 were urban.

[8] Large villages in Hasnabad CD Block are (2011 census figures in brackets): Murarisaha (5,652), Rajapura (4,158), Dakshin Bhebia (7,102), Kharampur (5,714), Chandpur (4,008), Haripur (4,107), Ghuni (4,281), Chak Patli (7,128), Shulkaniabad (5,414), Bhurkunda (5,617), Ghoshalati (6,892), Ichhapur (7,872) and Barunhat (16,635).

[8] 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 114,869 and formed 56.51% of the population in Hasnabad CD Block.

[24] 28.69% of households in Hasnabad CD Block lived below poverty line in 2001, against an average of 29.28% in North 24 Parganas district.

[26] 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.

58 villages (79.45%) have telephones (including landlines, public call offices and mobile phones).

[29] 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 Hasnabad CD Block could be classified as follows: bargadars 11,632 (20.87%), patta (document) holders 10,432 (18.72%), small farmers (possessing land between 1 and 2 hectares) 1,480 (2.66%), marginal farmers (possessing land up to 1 hectare) 16,345 (29.32%) and agricultural labourers 15,849 (28.43%).

[32] Hasnabad CD Block had 90 fertiliser depots, no seed store and no fair price shop in 2010–11.

[32] In 2010–11, Hasnabad CD Block had 3 ferry services and 5 originating/ terminating bus routes.

[37] In 2011, Hasnabad CD Block had 1 rural hospital and 3 primary health centres, with total 18 beds and 9 doctors (excluding private bodies).