It has 1 panchayat samity, 9 gram panchayats, 92 gram sansads (village councils), 99 mouzas and 94 inhabited villages, according to District Statistical Handbook Birbhum 2008. Nalhati police station serves this block. Headquarters of this CD Block is at Nalhati. Gram panchayats of Nalhati I block/panchayat samiti are: Banior, Bautia, Borla, Haridaspur, Kaitha I, Kaitha II, Kalitha, Kurumgram and Paikpara. As per the 2011 Census of India, Nalhati I CD Block had a total population of 204,818, all of which were rural. There were 105,070 (51%) males and 99,748 (49%) females. Population below 6 years was 13,736. Scheduled Castes numbered 73,768 (36.02%) and Scheduled Tribes numbered 10,219 (4.99%). As per 2001 census, Nalhati I block had a total population of 209,314, out of which 107,901 were males and 101,413 were females. Nalhati I block registered a population growth of 19.92 per cent during the 1991-2001 decade. Decadal growth for Birbhum district was 17.88 per cent. Decadal growth in West Bengal was 17.84 per cent. Large villages (with 4,000+ population) in Nalhati I CD Block are (2011 census figures in brackets): Banior (5,369), Bhabanandapur (4,178), Lakshminarayanpur (4,659), Tejhati (4,002), Mehagram (5,731), Haripur Podhra (4,175), Paikpara (9,993), Madhura (5,996), Amaypur (5,376), Dharampur (4,652), Bujunga (7,198), Kaytha (13,154), Bhelian (5,901) and Gosainpur (4,980). Other villages in Nalhati I CD Block include (2011 census figures in brackets): Bautia (2,694), Haridaspur (2,856), Kalitha (3,711) and Kurumgram (3,728). As per the 2011 census the total number of literates in Nalhati I CD Block was 133,428 (69.83% of the population over 6 years) out of which males numbered 73,413 (80.90% of the male population over 6 years) and females numbered 60,015 (69.78% of the female population over 6 years).