Basoa observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of West Bengal.
Basoa is a village in Rampurhat II mandal, Birbhum district, West Bengal, with a population of 5,511 across 1,549 households. The village has a literacy rate of 64% and is located at coordinates 24.136°N, 87.871°E with PIN code 731244.
By population, Basoa ranks #4 of 93 villages in Rampurhat - II mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Basoa is a village of 5,511 people in 1,549 households (Census 2011) in Rampurhat - II block, Birbhum district, West Bengal, the 4th-largest of 93 villages in Rampurhat - II block. Literacy is 64%, 3 points above the block average of 61% and the sex ratio is 918 women per 1,000 men. It lies 29 km from the Birbhum district centre, 3 km from Margram, the nearest town, 10 km from Rampurhat Junction railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 731244, served by Bishnupur (Birbhum) post office; the LGD village code is 316436. The nearest hospital or health centre is Tarapur Hospital, 7 km away. The sarpanch is MONIMALA SARKAR, and the village votes in Burwan assembly constituency, represented by MLA Sukhen Kumar Bagdi. The population is estimated at 6,165 in 2026, up 12% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Bishnupur →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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