It is up to the Census Commission to clarify. As per the Human Development Report for Malda district, published in 2006, the percentage of rural families in BPL category in Kaliachak I CD Block was 20.0%, the lowest amongst the CD Blocks of Malda district and considerably lower than the district average. Official surveys have found households living in absolute poverty in Malda district to be around 39%. According to the report, "An overwhelmingly large segment of the rural workforce depends on agriculture as its main source of livelihood, the extent of landlessness in Malda has traditionally been high because of the high densities of human settlement in the district… Although land reforms were implemented in Malda district from the time they were launched in other parts of West Bengal, their progress has been uneven across the Malda blocks… because of the overall paucity of land, the extent of ceiling-surplus land available for redistribution has never been large… The high levels of rural poverty that exist in nearly all blocks in Malda district closely reflect the livelihood crisis… "  In Kaliachak I CD Block in 2011, amongst the class of total workers, cultivators numbered 7,821 and formed 4.48%, agricultural labourers numbered 21,494 and formed 12.32%, household industry workers numbered 53,457 and formed 30.63% and other workers numbered 91,750 and formed 52.57%. Total workers numbered 174,522 and formed 44.46% of the total population, and non-workers numbered 217,995 and formed 55.54% of the population. Note: In the census records a person is considered a cultivator, if the person is engaged in cultivation/ supervision of land owned by self/government/institution. When a person who works on another person's land for wages in cash or kind or share, is regarded as an agricultural labourer. Household industry is defined as an industry conducted by one or more members of the family within the household or village, and one that does not qualify for registration as a factory under the Factories Act. Other workers are persons engaged in some economic activity other than cultivators, agricultural labourers and household workers. It includes factory, mining, plantation, transport and office workers, those engaged in business and commerce, teachers, entertainment artistes and so on. There are 49 inhabited villages in Kaliachak I CD Block. All 49 villages (100%) have power supply. 48 villages (97.06%) have drinking water supply. 22 villages (44.9%) have post offices. 43 villages (87.76%) have telephones (including landlines, public call offices and mobile phones). 33 villages (67.35%) have a pucca (paved) approach road and 13 villages (26.53%) have transport communication (includes bus service, rail facility and navigable waterways). 2 villages (4.08%) have agricultural credit societies. 8 villages (16.33%) have banks.