Tarakeshwar is a panchayat samiti (community development block) in Chandannagore subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

It has many depressions which receive water from tributaries of the surrounding lands during the rainy season and discharge it in smaller channels.

The CD block covers an area of 119.93 square kilometres (46.31 sq mi).

It has 10 gram panchayats (Astara-Duttapur, Baligori I, Baligori II, Bhanjipur, Champadanga, Keshabchak, Naita-Mal Paharpur, Purba Ramnagar, Santoshpur and Talpur),[2] 144 village councils, 90 mouzas and 89 villages.

[8] Villages with a population of over 4,000 in 2011 were Santoshpur (4,063), Talpur (5,389), Moktarpur (6,364), Bhanjipur (4,433), Purba Ramnagar (7,759), Baligari (5,845), Astara (6,590) and Champadanga (12,518).

The percentage of the Hindu population of the district has followed a decreasing trend from 87.1% in 1961 to 82.9% in the latest census 2011.

Sixty-three villages have landlines, 58 have public call offices, and 82 have mobile-phone coverage.

[16] Although rice is the district's main crop, potatoes, jute, vegetables and fruits are also grown.

[18] The CD block had 95 fertiliser depots, 38 seed stores and 47 fair-price shops in 2013-14.

[15] Tarakeswar had one rural hospital, two primary health centres and three private nursing homes with a total 105 beds and eight doctors in 2014.

It had 31 family welfare sub-centers; all treated 21,028 patients indoors and 215,593 outdoors.

The WHO guideline for arsenic in drinking water is 10 mg per litre, and the Indian standard is 50 mg. Sixteen blocks in Hooghly district have arsenic levels above WHO guidelines, and 11 have levels above the Indian standard.