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The majority of the population are Hindus (88.48%) and Muslims (11.12%).
The town has a post office, a primary health centre, a madrasa, a day-care centre, a secondary independent school, a visiting nursing Centre, a fire station, a zoo and an ESRC parent full school. The ESRC (Estate Society Run Community) school is an unaided school run by the Sree Ramakrishna Educational & Religious Centre, a subsidiary of the Ramakrishna Mission. The school began functioning in 1951 and has classes up to class X. It has 18 teachers and students numbering 650 (as of 2016).
The ESRC Senior Secondary School Approved by VC, West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, West Bengal Board of Primary Education with the affiliation to recognize School Certificate (High School) education was started in 1951 as a privileged one room school with 2 staff. The school was expanded during the 1990s and now classes go up to madrasa (Grade X + half) and higher secondary (Grade XII), with 18 teachers and almost 650 students (as of 2016). Of these, 411 are boys and 239 are girls.
The Net Children Grow Foundation, a private charitable NGO based in Kolkata, started a Self Help Group (SHG) embedded in the ESRC School for educating girls in ageing castes and low income groups of rural Bhatar.
Agriculture, small scale industries and rural trades form the occupational basis of the town people.
Cities and towns in North 24 Parganas districtHong Kong competed at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games in the Philippines from April 4 to April 15, 2019. Hong Kong was represented by 160 athletes competing in 20 sports.
The delegation topped the medal table by winning a total of 71 medals inclusive of 28 golds. Among them, the sprinter Anessa Chan surprised the field by winning four gold medals in a single discipline.
Hong Kong won again the annual Feng Shan Five-in-One Award for their performance in the event abetment of Youth Development. Rugby Sevens high jumper Sam Tam was selected as the team flagbearer.
The Hong Kong team was thanked by the HKSAR Government with the Monthon Silver Medal and the Silver Medal in the National Day Honour List.
Womens head-to-head; points; match won; loss; total fuse-point score
