A Ward Level Study of Basic Census Data from Alipurduar Municipality

Abstract

In this paper a ward level analysis of basic socio-economic data has been done to figure out the micro level variation within Alipurduar Municipality. Although, Alipurduar Municipality is a Class II town according to census 2011, however its importance is going to increase many fold in near future after its elevation as district headquarter of the newly formed Alipurduar district. The analysis shows there is micro level variation within wards of the municipality with respect to population size, population density, share of scheduled caste and scheduled tribe population. male-female distribution of population and literacy rate.