Barddhaman, West Bengal

Not a Scheduled AreaCensus 2011 district code 335

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28 Oct 2026 · Details soughtEssential details under examinationProposed Ethanol based Chemical plant for 150 KLPD Ethyl Acetate, 55 KLPD Acetaldehyde, 30 KLPD…
27 Oct 2026 · Details soughtEssential details soughtProposed Ethanol based Chemical plant for 150 KLPD Ethyl Acetate, 55 KLPD Acetaldehyde, 30 KLPD…
27 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedProposed Ethanol based Chemical plant for 150 KLPD Ethyl Acetate, 55 KLPD Acetaldehyde, 30 KLPD…
27 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedProposed 300 KLPD Grain Based Distillery (Ethanol/RS/ENA) along with 12 MW Cogeneration Power Plant, 3…
26 Oct 2026 · DecidedEnvironmental clearance grantedCluster no. 11 (group of 11 mixed mines) of M/s Eastern Coalfields limited
26 Oct 2026 · Details soughtEssential details soughtProposed greenfield steel plant by setting up 1 X 200 TPD DRI Plant, 2 X 20 T Induction Furnaces, 1 X 4.5…
26 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedProposed Ethanol based Chemical plant for 150 KLPD Ethyl Acetate, 55 KLPD Acetaldehyde, 30 KLPD…
26 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedProposed 300 KLPD Grain Based Distillery (Ethanol/RS/ENA) along with 12 MW Cogeneration Power Plant, 3…
26 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedProposed Expansion of Ferro Alloy Plant by Installing 1 X 6.5 MVA Submerged Arc Furnace along with…
22 Oct 2026 · DecidedEnvironmental clearance grantedProposed Expansion cum Modification of Existing Steel Plant.
22 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedEnvironmental Clearance for proposed Strip Mill - 5,40,000 TPA, Steel Melting Shop (SMS) with Induction…
21 Oct 2026 · Details soughtEssential details soughtExpansion of Integrated Steel Plant from 0.85 MTPA to 1.35 MTPA at Jamuria Industrial Estate in Village…

Dated by the portal's own appraisal history, converted to India Standard Time; a proposal with no recorded history appears on its register submission date.

Other clearances these proposals declare

Forest land diversion declared: 6
Forest land sought for diversion: 69 ha
Wildlife board recommendation declared: 1
In or near a protected area: 0
In an eco-sensitive zone: 2

These counts are taken from the application forms of the 462 of 462 proposals naming this district whose forms have been read for these questions. In 224 of those forms at least one question was left blank, and a blank answer is counted as unknown. The forest area is the area stated for forest clearance, with each forest proposal counted once, in the district where its project is primarily sited.

Proposals naming this district: 462
Category A proposals: 124
Families declared displaced: 37,014
Families declared affected: 37,146

Displacement figures are the proponents’ own declarations. A project sited across several districts declares one figure for the whole project, and that figure is counted once, in the district where the project is primarily sited.

Fifth Schedule status

Not within a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area

No Presidential Order under paragraph 6 of the Fifth Schedule declares any Scheduled Area in West Bengal, so no part of this district is one and PESA does not apply.

OrderMinistry of Tribal Affairs, Scheduled Areas declared under paragraph 6 of the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution

What the record shows

Applicants for projects sited mainly in this district have declared 37,014 families to be displaced. The figure comes from their applications, and we have not verified it.

Each of these observations appears when a fixed rule is met by the figures on this page, so the same figures always give the same sentences. None of them is a view on whether a project should go ahead.

Who lives there

Figures from Census 2011, each compared with the all-India value computed on the same definition.

Total population: 77,17,563
Households: 17,30,927
Average household size: 4.46; 0.39 below India's 4.85India
Scheduled Tribe share of population: 6.3%; 2.2 points below IndiaIndia
Scheduled Caste share of population: 27.4%; 10.8 points above IndiaIndia
Children aged 0-6: 10.8%; 2.8 points below IndiaIndia
Literacy rate: 76.2%; 3.2 points above IndiaIndia
Sex ratio: 946; 2.90 above India's 942.6India

What they live on

How the district's workers earn a living, from Census 2011. The land-dependent share counts cultivators and agricultural labourers as a share of all workers, and it is the group most directly affected when land is acquired.

Total workers: 29,11,251
Work participation rate: 37.7%; 2.1 points below IndiaIndia
Workers dependent on land: 45.2%; 9.4 points below IndiaIndia
Cultivators: 11.8%; 12.9 points below IndiaIndia
Agricultural labourers: 33.4%; 3.5 points above IndiaIndia
Marginal workers: 25.6%; 0.8 points above IndiaIndia
Household industry workers: 4.3%; 0.5 points above IndiaIndia

How households live

Land, income and work among rural households, from the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011, which recorded these where the population census did not. Only the survey's rural part is used here, so urban households do not appear.

Rural households owning land: 29.4%; 16.7 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households whose highest earner makes over ₹5,000 a month: 17.8%; 6.6 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households living mainly on manual casual labour: 61.2%; 9.4 points above IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households with a salaried member: 8.1%; 0.2 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.

When these were filed

Each proposal is dated by the first step in its appraisal history, the dated record of steps the portal keeps for it.

2023-Q12026-Q4

The timeline counts 394 of the 462 proposals here. The first filing date comes from each proposal's appraisal history, and we have not yet read it for the other 68, so they are left out. Most of them are older proposals, so the early part of the timeline undercounts what was filed then. The register itself records a date for each of them; the gap is in our copy of the histories.

Hatched columns undercount, so they cannot be compared with solid ones. 4 of them cover periods for which we have read few filing dates so far, and they count only the proposals whose date we have. 2026-Q4 was still running when the register was read, so its column counts only the filings made up to that date.

What kind of projects these are

The proposals naming this district, grouped by the sector each was filed under.

Non-Coal Mining 60.8%
Industrial Projects - 1 25.3%
Industrial Projects - 2 4.3%
Coal Mining 3.9%
Other (4) 5.6%

The four largest sectors are shown by name and the rest are grouped as Other.

What is proposed here

These are the proposals in the national environmental clearance register whose application names a site in this district, newest first. A project with sites in several districts appears under each of them.

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