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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Baskanda is a village in Dubrajpur mandal, Birbhum district, West Bengal. Situated at 23.853°N, 87.392°E with postal code 731104.
GM
Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Gautam Mondal
Contact: 89****6927
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- LGD code
- 318185
- Pincode
- 731104
- Post office
- Bk.T.P.P
- Population
- 0
- Households
- 0
- Workers
- 0
- Distance to district centre
- 34 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 7 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 174 km
- Distance to Delhi
- 1145 km
- Nearest railway station
- Chinpai · 5 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Glocal Hospital · 7 km
Baskanda at a glance
Baskanda is a revenue village in Dubrajpur block, Birbhum district, West Bengal. It lies 34 km from the Birbhum district centre, 8 km from Pratappur, the nearest town, 5 km from Chinpai railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 731104, served by Bk.T.P.P post office; the LGD village code is 318185. The nearest hospital or health centre is Glocal Hospital, 7 km away. The sarpanch is Gautam Mondal, and the village votes in Dubrajpur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Anup Kumar Saha.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Baskanda
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- No
- Tube well / borewell
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Total area (ha)
- 183.48
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 16.7
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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Key facts — Baskanda
- LGD code
- 318185
- Pincode
- 731104
- Post office
- Bk.T.P.P
- Population (Census 2011)
- 0
- Households
- 0
- Coordinates
- 23.85342°N, 87.39161°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Birbhum
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Dubrajpur
- Member of Parliament
- Satabdi Roy
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Anup Kumar Saha
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Gautam Mondal
- Block / Mandal
- Dubrajpur
Getting there
How to reach Baskanda
Distance to cities · straight line
- Kolkata174 kmcapital
- Delhi1145 km
- Hyderabad1172 km
- Chennai1413 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationChinpai5 km
- Bus stopপাওয়ার হাউস মোর7 km
- Hospital / PHCGlocal Hospital7 km
- ATM / bankUCO Bank15 km
- Petrol pumpTibriwala Petrol Pump15 km
- CollegeBengal Institute of Technology and Management34 km
- Police stationUkhra Out Post28 km
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records, 2026-05-14
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-16
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)