Alui

{{OSM Location map Location Alui is located at . Area overview Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, scholar, social reformer and a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance, was born at Birsingha on 26 September 1820. Ghatal subdivision, shown in the map alongside, has alluvial soils. Around 85% of the total cultivated area is cropped more than once. It has a density of population of 1,099 per km2, but being a small subdivision only a little over a fifth of the people in the district reside in this subdivision. 14.33% of the population lives in urban areas and 86.67% lives in the rural areas. Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map. ==Demographics==

According to the 2011 Census of India, Alui had a total population of 1,627, of which 825 (51%) were males and 802 (49%) were females. There were 159 persons in the age range of 0–6 years. The total number of literate persons in Uttar Bar was 1,070 (77.89% of the population over 6 years). ==Education==

Alui High School is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1965. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class X. It has a library with 610 books. ==Alui picture gallery==

File:Nabaratna temple of Bhuinya family of Alui village under Ghatal Police Station at Paschim Medinipur District in West Bengal 03.jpg|Naba-ratna temple of Bhuinya family built in 1860 File:Nabaratna temple of Bhuinya family of Alui village under Ghatal Police Station at Paschim Medinipur District in West Bengal 01.jpg|Bhuinya family temple File:Nabaratna temple of Bhuinya family of Alui village under Ghatal Police Station at Paschim Medinipur District in West Bengal 05.jpg|Terracotta decoration in Bhuinya family temple File:Sridhara Nabaratna temple of Roy family at Alui village under Ghatal Police Station of Paschim Medinipur District in West Bengal 01.jpg|Naba-ratna Sridhara temple of Roy family built in 1880 File:Sridhara Nabaratna temple and Octagonal Rasmancha of Roy family at Alui village under Ghatal Police Station of Paschim Medinipur District in West Bengal 04.jpg|Sridhara temple File:Sridhara Nabaratna temple of Roy family at Alui village under Ghatal Police Station of Paschim Medinipur District in West Bengal 10.jpg|Terracotta decoration ==References==