While introspecting the states of India it is obvious for any one to come across several towns and cities that have developed here. The state of West Bengal too is not an exception in this regard. Amongst several towns one can easily distinguish Nokpul. In fact it is an example of a census town which lies in the district of North 24 Parganas of West Bengal state . It falls under the jurisdiction of Habra police station of `Barasat sadar subdivision` of the same district.

In order to identify the salient features of this Nokpul town it is necessary for any one first to collect as much information as possible about its demographical scenario. For meeting such objective, several surveys have been organized and also reports were prepared accordingly. In fact the onus of conducting such surveys have been bestowed upon multitudes of demographers of the country. Regarding this, one needs to emphasize the name of the Census report that has been issued forth in the year 2001.

As per this report , the total population of Nokpul has been enumerated to be 6647. As an additional benefit individual data about male and female residents can be easily derived with the help of this relevant document. Out of it, male populace constitutes 53 while female populace comprises of 47 % only. In Nokpul, 9% of the total population is below six years of age

Since literacy rate gauges the growth and development of town or city it is obvious that the average literacy rate of Nokpul, which is as high as 81 %, conforms the progress and growth of the particular town. Thus it is even higher than that of the entire nation, which constitutes 59.5 %. Specifications about male and female literacy rates of Nokpul too can be inferred from this aforesaid report. The propensity of males towards education constitutes 85 %. Female literacy also is no less insignificant thereby constituting 77 %.