Dipa Kiarchand was mostly owned by raja of Mayurbhanj, including the Rohini of Sankrail and Gopibalavpur area.
In Dipa Kiarchand there are number of prehistoric memorial pillar indicating aboriginal inhabitants in the northern side of Subarnarekha, and the southern side of the river, which constitute the present-day Nayagram block was a forest land with smaller zaminadris like Jamirapal and Olmara.
[2][3] 106 districts spanning 10 states across India, described as being a part of the left wing extremism activities, constitutes the Red corridor.
In West Bengal the districts of Pashim Medinipur, Bankura, Purulia and Birbhum are part of the Red corridor.
[4] In the period 2009-2011 LWE violence resulted in more than 500 deaths and a similar number missing in Paschim Medinipur district.
[5] The Lalgarh movement, which started attracting attention after the failed assassination attempt on Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, then chief minister of West Bengal, in the Salboni area of Paschim Medinipur district, on 2 November 2008 and the police action that followed, had also spread over to these areas.
Although the epi-centre of the movement was Lalgarh, it was spread across 19 police stations in three adjoining districts – Paschim Medinipur, Bankura and Purulia, all thickly forested and near the border with Jharkhand.
The movement came to an end after the 2011 state assembly elections and change of government in West Bengal.
[8] The Chota Nagpur Plateau gradually slopes down creating an undulating area with infertile laterite rocks/ soil.
[14] See also – List of West Bengal districts ranked by literacy rate Primary Census Abstract Data
[17] Others include Addi Bassi, Marang Boro, Santal, Saranath, Sari Dharma, Sarna, Alchchi, Bidin, Sant, Saevdharm, Seran, Saran, Sarin, Kheria,[18] and other religious communities.
[22] Persons engaged in agriculturein Nayagram CD block Although the Bargadari Act of 1950 recognised the rights of bargadars to a higher share of crops from the land that they tilled, it was not implemented fully.
In 2013-14, persons engaged in agriculture in Nayagram CD block could be classified as follows: bargadars 2.52%, patta (document) holders 30.78%, small farmers (possessing land between 1 and 2 hectares) 2.73%, marginal farmers (possessing land up to 1 hectare) 22.66% and agricultural labourers 41.31%.
[22] The United Nations Development Programme considers the combined primary and secondary enrolment ratio as the simple indicator of educational achievement of the children in the school going age.
[27] Nayagram and Gopiballavpur I CD blocks have been identified as educationally backward blocks and special efforts are being made through National Programme of Education for Girls at Elementary Level and Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya hostels.
These are the hostels for accommodating girl students from weaker sections of the society and all costs relating to their livelihood are borne by the government so that they are not to be deprived of availing elementary education for want of money or other social issues.
It offers courses in Bengali, Santali, English, Sanskrit, history, philosophy, political science and sociology.
The college is named after the great scholar Pandit Raghunath Murmu (1905–1982) who developed the Ol Chiki alphabet of Santali language.