Jejur

Jejur
village
Jejur Location in West Bengal, India
Coordinates:
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Hooghly
Population (2001)
• Total	4,532
Languages
• Official	Bengali, English
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN	712405
Telephone code	91 3212

Jejur is a gram panchayat under Haripal block in Chandannagar subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from Haripal railway station on the Sheoraphuli-Tarakeswar Branch Line.

Geography

Jejur is located at

Jejur gram panchayat is composed of the following villages: Rajaballabhbati, Mannapara, Purbba Narayanpur, Kankrajol, Amgachhi, Jejur, Jinpur, Kalachhara, and Meshera.

Demographics

Jejur had a population of 4,532 out of which 1,619 belonged to scheduled castes and 191 belonged to scheduled tribes.

Economics

Agriculture

This is a rich agricultural area. Though rice is the prime crop of the district, the agricultural economy largely depends on potato, jute, vegetables and orchard products. Vegetable is a prize crop in the blocks of Haripal, Singur, Chanditala, Polba and Dhaniakhali being grown in a relay system throughout the year. Though potato is cultivated in all the blocks of this district Dhaniakhali, Arambagh, Goghat, Pursurah, Haripal, Polba-Dadpur, Tarakeswar, Pandua and Singur contributed much of its production of this district.

Some of the primary and other hats or markets in the Haripal block area are: Basudevpur hat, Bondipur hat, Dar hatta hat, Jejur Daily Market, Kaikala hat, Kalchara hat, Nalikul hat, Sipaigachi hat, Jagin market, Haripal Barabazar and Haripal Station Bazar.

People

Atulya Ghosh, freedom fighter and once the strongman of the Congress Party, was born at Jejur on 28 August 1904.