Mohanpur

Mohanpur is a community development block that forms an administrative division in the Kharagpur subdivision of Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.GeographyThe Mohanpur area is a monotonous rice plain with numerous waterways and tidal creeks intersecting it. The tidal creeks are lined with embankments to prevent flooding of the fields. Much of the area is water-logged. In Mohanpur CD Block 100% of the cultivated area has highly productive alluvial soil.Mohanpur is located at.Mohanpur CD Block is bounded by Dantan II CD Block in the north, Egra I CD Block, in Purba Medinipur district, in the east, Jaleswar CD Block/ tehsil, in Balasore district in Odisha, in the south and Dantan I CD Block, in the west. It is located 58 km from Midnapore, the district headquarters.Mohanpur CD Block has an area of 137.49 km2. It has 1 panchayat samity, 5 gram panchayats, 182 gram sansads (village councils), 103 mouzas and 100 inhabited villages. Mohanpur police station serves this block. Headquarters of this CD Block is at Mohanpur.