Pakuahat
Pakuahat is a village in the Bamangola CD block in the Malda Sadar subdivision of Malda district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography. Location. Pakuahat 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. Civic administration. CD block HQ. The headquarters of Bamangola CD block is at Pakuahat. Demographics. According to the 2011 Census of India, Mirzapur (Pakuahat) had a total population of 3,010, of which 1,562 (52%) were males and 1,448 (48%) were  females. Population in the age range 0-6 years was 276. The total number of literate persons in Mirzapur (Pakuahat) was 2,227 (81.46% of the population over 6 years). Transport. It is on the Nalagola-Pakuahat-Malda Road. Education. Pakuahat Degree College was established in 1997 and is affiliated to the University of Gour Banga. It offers honours courses in Bengali, English, history, sociology and political science, and general courses in arts and science.