Bara Shankar
Patahi block · Purbi Champaran
district, Bihar · PIN 845457
· village code 218512
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 10,780 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 1 — an implausibly small number. One of the two is wrong and we cannot
tell which.
Census 2011
Total population
10,780
Male / female
5,625 / 5,155
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
916
Children aged 0–6
2,085
Literacy rate
39.7%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
1,749 / 1
Working population
4,661
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
94.4%
Households
2,463
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
No
Middle school
No
High school
No
Piped tap water
No
All-weather road
No
Public transport
No
Electricity
—
Bank
No
Primary health centre
No
Anganwadi
No
Internet
No
Common service centre
No CSC
Farming
Farm households
0
Non-farm households
0
Net sown area
1 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
1 / 0 / 0
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Patahi West panchayat, Patahi 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
₹39.46 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹16.11 lakh
Received directly
₹17.44 lakh
Spent
₹32.24 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹40.77 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹11.45 lakh · received ₹6.42 lakh · spent ₹16.35 lakh · left ₹8.52 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹28.01 lakh · received ₹9.69 lakh · spent ₹15.89 lakh · left ₹32.25 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
26.5765, 85.1528 —
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