Salient Information on District Puruliya, West Bengal

Population: 2930115

Aggregate Development Index:

ADI(2001):

ADI(2011):

ADI(2019):

Employment Type:

News Articles

This section displays significant articles (upto 6) that agree with the subclass of the district over a period of past 100 days. These articles provide information that is being covered in newspapers recently which may explain why a particular district has higher or lower pace of growth and employment type. For this purpose, the article is first classified into one of the five themes (Agriculture, Industrialization, Environment, Development, Lifestyle). Using DocTag2Vec model, vector for each article is inferred and ratio of cosine similarities between the subclasses is used to classify article to a subclass based on highest relevance score. If the subclass of district (to which article belongs) and article matches, then the article belongs to this district. Click on the article to read complete news.
Percentage of People Using/Having Rudimentary, Intermediate, Advanced Facilities
Bathroom Facility
No Latrine Facility Pit Latrine Piped Sewer/Septic Tank
2001 90.16 2.63 7.21
2011 88.3 0.7 11
Fuel for Cooking
Firewood Cow Dung/Kerosene LPG/PNG/Biogas
2001 64.98 31.73 3.29
2011 62.1 26.4 5.6
Condition of Household
Dilapidated House Livable House Good House
2001 4.56 51.49 43.95
2011 7.4 60.2 32.4
Main Source of Light
No Source of Light Kerosene Oil/Other Oil Electricity/Solar Light
2001 0.12 80.26 19.62
2011 0.4 65.3 34.3
Main Source of Water
Well/Spring/River Hand Pump/Tube Well Tap Water/Treated Water
2001 55.64 37.05 7.31
2011 32.4 55.4 12.2
Asset Ownership
Radio TV Telephone
2001 25.43 13.36 2.07
2011 8.9 18.4 30.5
2 Wheeler 4 Wheeler No Asset
2001 4.94 0.87 30.19
2011 8.7 1.2 23.4
Labels
Bathroom
Facility		 Fuel for
Cooking		 Condition of
Household		 Asset
Ownership
2001 1 1 2 1
2011 1 1 1 1
Main Source
of Light		 Main Source
of Water		 Literacy

 Industry
2001 1 1 1 2
2001 1 2 1 2
Employment

 Formal
Employment		 Female Marginal
Employment		 Female Main
Employment
2001 1 2 3 2
2001 1 2 2 2
Information Related to Employment and Demographics
Total Population Eligible Population No of Households
2001 25.37 lakhs 21.28 lakhs 4.5 lakhs
2011 29.3 lakhs 25.2 lakhs 5.68 lakhs
Literacy Female Marginal
Employment		 Female Main
Employment
2001 55.57 62.29 22.97
2011 64.48 51.59 19.59
Unmployment Agricultural
Employment		 Non-Agricultural
Employment
2001 47.01 17.13 13.21
2011 50.41 11.72 12.62