 According to the Rural Household Survey in 2005, 32.85% of total number of families were BPL families in Purulia district.According to a World Bank report, as of 2012, 31-38% of the population in Purulia, Murshidabad and Uttar Dinajpur districts were below poverty level, the highest among the districts of West Bengal, which had an average 20% of the population below poverty line.In the Arsha CD block in 2011, among the class of total workers, cultivators numbered 19,904 and formed 27.08%, agricultural labourers numbered 30,374 and formed 41.33%, household industry workers numbered 9,266 and formed 12.61% and other workers numbered 13,953 and formed 18.98%.Total workers numbered 73,497 and formed 47.50% of the total population, and non-workers numbered 81,239 and formed 52.50% of the population.