A region with high proportion of Tribal inhabitants. Agriculture is the major basis of profits. The district is also renowned for music, art and culture. With the diverse diversity of land with large tracts of forests, hills, the districts have set up position on the tourists map. Mukutmanipur, Bishnupur, Jhilmil are the major spots of attraction. Bankura has numerous colleges, counting a

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medical school, allied with the University of Burdwan. Bankura lies on a densely inhabited alluvial plain. Rice, wheat, corn (maize), and sugarcane are the principal crops in the adjacent undeveloped area; mica, china clay, iron-ore, lead, zinc, and wolframite deposits are also worked in the region.

places of interest
Susunia
Susunia hill is fairly well-liked as trekking spot both inside & out side of Bankura district. It is also a significant tourist spot for the populace who visit the situate to see "Dhara" (Natural Spring) & Silialipi.

Biharinath
Biharinath Hill is the tallest in the region (448 metre) stands protector on the north-western border, a renowned place of visiting the attraction.
Joyrambati
Joyrambati the Birth place of Sree Sree Maa Sarada Devi is a sacred visiting situate. The well-known place of worship of Singha Bahani Devi is a particular magnetism. Mayerepukur, in front of the inhabited house of Ma-Sarada is also a noticeable scene.

Mukutmonipur
Mukutmonipur- Jhilimili has became the most attractive tourist site in Bankura District The second biggest earthen Dam of India, Mukutmonipur is 55Km away from Bankura District Head Quarter and situated in the convergence of river Kangsabati and Kumari. Green forest enclose the infinite bluish tract of water, Hillocks are basically a dream come here. The place is very much renowned for its outstanding natural attractiveness. The facade of the motionless water turns into a glittery silver plate gifted by God.

Jhilimili
Jhilimili is located 70 Km away from Bankura Town of us attractiveness of an uninterrupted impenetrable normal forest. A travel from Ranibund to Jhilimili offers a magnificent revelation to impressive forest of changeable heights on both sides on the route, and in conclusion reaching Jhilimili mounted on the top of a small hill. The glitter of astonishing soil adds to the splendor of the surroundings.
Bishnupur
Bishnupur (the distance from Kolkata is 132 kms), now the control center of the subdivision of the same name in Bankura district, is a place of crafts and heritage. For approximately a thousand years it was the center of the Malla kings of Mallabhum, of which Bankura was a part, till their command waned all through the times when Mughal rule undermined under the last crowned heads of the reign................more