Dhaka
Cholapur block · Varanasi
district, Uttar Pradesh · PIN 221116
· village code 209632
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 936 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 2,680 — more than 2.5 times higher, which no village grows in nine years. One of the two is wrong and we cannot
tell which.
Census 2011
Total population
936
Male / female
489 / 447
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
914
Children aged 0–6
143
Literacy rate
68.3%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
365 / 33
Working population
298
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
39.3%
Households
124
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water
50 to 100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport nearest 1 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 2 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
Common service centre
No CSC
The village primary school
These figures sit inside a single merged column of the Mission
Antyodaya file and are not published anywhere in readable form.
Students
109
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
27
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
119
Non-farm households
261
Share of households farming, 2020
31%
Net sown area
52 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
52 / 39 / 30
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Dhaka panchayat, Cholapur zila parishad.
These are the panchayat's own accounts, not this village's: where a panchayat
holds several villages, the money covers all of them, and where a village
spans several panchayats only this one's return appears.
Opening balance
₹3.76 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹5.74 lakh
Received directly
₹9,501
Spent
₹8.92 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹67,594
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹1.14 lakh · received ₹2.29 lakh · spent ₹3.38 lakh · left ₹15,499
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹2.62 lakh · received ₹3.44 lakh · spent ₹5.54 lakh · left ₹52,095
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
25.4955, 83.0017 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Varanasi district ·
School
staffing across Varanasi ·
…and across Uttar Pradesh