Salient Information on District South Twenty Four Parganas, West Bengal

Population: 8161961

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	58.18	32.56	9.26
2011	39.3	40.3	20.4
	Fuel for Cooking
	Firewood	Cow Dung/Kerosene	LPG/PNG/Biogas
2001	39.34	52.98	7.69
2011	39.5	44.1	13.2
	Condition of Household
	Dilapidated House	Livable House	Good House
2001	9.13	50.5	40.37
2011	13.9	46.9	39.2
	Main Source of Light
	No Source of Light	Kerosene Oil/Other Oil	Electricity/Solar Light
2001	0.35	71.16	28.48
2011	0.5	48.9	50.6
	Main Source of Water
	Well/Spring/River	Hand Pump/Tube Well	Tap Water/Treated Water
2001	0.9	88.91	10.19
2011	0.7	75.9	23.4
	Asset Ownership
	Radio	TV	Telephone
2001	45.31	19.85	3.52
2011	24	32.1	44.7
	2 Wheeler	4 Wheeler	No Asset
2001	2.52	2.11	36.66
2011	4.9	2.2	29.9

Labels
	Bathroom Facility	Fuel for Cooking	Condition of Household	Asset Ownership
2001	1	2	1	1
2011	2	2	1	1
	Main Source of Light	Main Source of Water	Literacy	Industry
2001	1	2	2	4
2001	2	2	2	4
	Employment	Formal Employment	Female Marginal Employment	Female Main Employment
2001	3	2	1	1
2001	3	3	1	1

	Information Related to Employment and Demographics
	Total Population	Eligible Population	No of Households
2001	69.07 lakhs	58.57 lakhs	13.22 lakhs
2011	81.62 lakhs	71.36 lakhs	17.81 lakhs
	Literacy	Female Marginal Employment	Female Main Employment
2001	69.45	40.38	9.97
2011	77.51	36.73	12.73
	Unmployment	Agricultural Employment	Non-Agricultural Employment
2001	61.71	10.22	18.43
2011	58.46	9.14	18.94