 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 Purulia II CD block in 2011, among the class of total workers, cultivators numbered 12,935 and formed 17.58%, agricultural labourers numbered 26,245 and formed 37.38%, household industry workers numbered 4,137 and formed 5.89% and other workers numbered 27,487 and formed 39.15%.Total workers numbered 70,212 and formed 41.43% of the total population, and non-workers numbered 99,276 and formed 58.56% of the population.Note