Hili is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Balurghat subdivision of Dakshin Dinajpur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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.

The township of Kishanganj and its entire municipal boundary remained within Bihar.

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

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

[14] As per 2011 Census of India, Hili CD Block had a total population of 83,754, all of which were rural.

[15] As per 2001 census, Hili block has a total population of 77,246, out of which 39,532 were males and 37714 were females.

Hili block registered a population growth of 24.98 per cent during the 1991–2001 decade.

[16] Villages in Hili CD Block included (2011 population in brackets): Hilli (2,185), Dhalpara (1,438), Binsira (2,090), Jamalpur (3,618) and Panjul (1,014).

[18] 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.

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

75 villages (94.94%) have telephones (including landlines, public call offices and mobile phones).

[29] The land is fertile for agricultural production, particularly in the southern part of the district.

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

[30] Hili CD Block had 118 fertiliser depots, 60 seed stores and 16 fair price shops in 2013–14.

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

[32][33] At the time of partition in 1947, Hili Railway Station got located in Pakistan and is now in Hakimpur Upazila of Bangladesh.

[34] Extension of the Eklakhi-Balurghat Branch Line to Hili was announced in the Rail Budget for 2010–11.

Hili CD Block had 267 institutions for special and non-formal education with 4,918 students.

[39] In 2014, Hili CD Block had 1 rural hospital and 2 primary health centres with total 35 beds and 8 doctors (excluding private bodies).