Kurumgram
Kurumgram is an old village located in Nalhati I CD Block in Rampurhat subdivision of Birbhum district in West Bengal State of India. Geography. Total geographical area of Kurumgram village is 4.04 km and it is the 15th largest village by area in the sub district. Kurumgram's elevation / altitude is 40 meters above sea level. Time Zone- Indian Standard Time(IST) (GMT+5:30). Kurumgram is located 60 km towards north from District headquarters Suri, Birbhum. 10 km from Nalhati town, 13 km from Rampurhat, 225 km from State capital Kolkata. The other cities nearby are Sainthia (45 km), Baharampur (60  km) and Bolpur (80 km). The Tarapith Tara Maa Temple is near to Kurumgram (22 km). The historic Lalbagh & Murshidabad are also not very far from Kurumgram (65 km). The nearby villages of Kurumgram are Kanupara, Sardha, Mehegram, Tejhati, Bujung, Dharampur, Barla, Raghunathpur, Gayta, Belun, Sadashibpur, Kanaipur etc. The local language is here Bengali. The other languages also spoken here are English & Hindi. Government and politics. The main four political parties in Kurumgram are All India Trinamool Congress (TMC), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Indian National Congress (INC) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM). Culture. Almost all Hindu festivals are  celebrated. The Durga Puja, Kali Puja & Saraswati Puja are the three most celebrated festivals by the villagers. History. The village was founded in the 16th century by Garur Mitra. Further development of the village was done by Arjun Mitra Majumdar, grandson of Garur Mitra. The name of the village is based on the word Kurma (Tortoise in Sanskrit), since the initial landscape of the village resembled the body of a tortoise. Education. There are two Bengali medium Government primary schools (class I-IV) in Kurumgram - Kurumgram Boys Primary School & Kurumgram Girls Primary School. Beside that in Kurumgram there is a  private missionary nursery (primary) English medium school- Sree Sree Ramkrishna Sishu Vidyapith. There also has a co-ed Government Bengali medium Higher Secondary School in Kurumgram - Mitrabhum High School which is the oldest High School in this area set up in 1921. Students from nearby villages and nearby towns come here to study. It is a very renowned school in Birbhum district. This school has a big play ground to develop in Sports too. Since its establishment, the school has been continuously developing extraordinary talent and thus created a benchmark in the field of study. But there are no colleges  in Kurumgram village. The nearest colleges from Kurumgram are Rampurhat College & Hiralal Bhakat College (Nalhati), sofia girls college.