Kendua, West Bengal
Kendua is a census town in the Habibpur CD block in the Malda Sadar subdivision of Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography. Location. Kendua is located at . Area overview. The area shown in the adjacent map covers two physiographic regions – the "Barind" in the east and the "tal" in the west. The eastern part is comparatively high (up to 40 metres above mean sea level at places) and uneven. The soils of the eastern region are “hard salty clays of a reddish hue and the ground is baked hard as iron.” It lies  to the east of the Mahananda River. The area lying to the west of the Mahananda River, the "tal", is a flat low land and “is strewn with innumerable marshes, bils and oxbow lakes.” The "tal" area is prone to flooding by local rivers.The total area is overwhelmingly rural.There are two important historical/ archaeological sites in the area – Pandua and Jagjivanpur. Demographics. According to the 2011 Census of India, Kendua had a total population of 6,452, of which 3,296 (51%) were males and 3,156 (49%) were females. Population in the age range 0-6 years was 673. The  total number of literate persons in Kendua was 4,614 (79.84% of the population over 6 years). Infrastructure. According to the "District Census Handbook, Maldah", 2011, Kendua covered an area of 1.2 km. It had 3 km roads with both open and closed drains. The protected water-supply involved overhead tank, tap water from treated sources, tube well/ bore well. It had 608 domestic electric connections. Among the educational facilities, it had 1 primary school in town, the nearest secondary school at Kachu Pukur 3 km away. It had 1 non-formal education centre (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan). Among the social, cultural  and recreational facilities it had 1 public library. It produced mustard oil, beedi, paddy.