Claim: The literacy rate of Thakurpukur Maheshtala, a community development block in Alipore Sadar subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal is 83.54 percent.
Evidence: According to the 2011 census, the total number of literates in the Thakurpukur Mahestala CD block was 132,097 (83.54% of the population over 6 years) out of which males numbered 70,300 (87.95% of the male population over 6 years) and females numbered 61,797 (79.03% of the female population over 6 years). Thakurpukur Maheshtala is a community development block (CD block) that forms an administrative division in the Alipore Sadar subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.