Ruiya (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Ruiya is a census town under Khardaha police station of Barrackpore subdivisionin North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. As of 2001 India census, Ruiya had a population of 10,703. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Ruiya has an average literacy rate of 65%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 71%, and female literacy is 58%. In Ruiya, 12% of the population is under 6 years of age. North 24 Parganas district has been identified as one of the areas where ground water is affected by arsenic contamination. West Bengal is a state in eastern regions of India and is the nation's fourth most populous. The state has been classified as the seventh most populous subdivisions entity in the world. With Bangladesh, which lies on its eastern border, the state forms the ethno-linguistic region of Bengal. To its northeast lie the states of Assam and Sikkim and the country Bhutan, and to its southwest, the state of Orissa. To the west it borders the states of Jharkhand and Bihar, and to the northwest, Nepal.