Gangapur

Banmankhi block · Purnia district, Bihar · PIN 854202 · village code 223088

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 7,453 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 4,000 — a drop of more than 40%. One of the two is wrong and we cannot tell which.

Census 2011

Total population

7,453

Male / female

3,897 / 3,556

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

912

Children aged 0–6

1,513

Literacy rate

39.2%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

1,184 / 5

Working population

2,890

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

83.0%

Households

1,460

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school nearest 2 km away

Piped tap water

100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Auto

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank nearest 10 km away

Primary health centre

Sub Centre

Anganwadi

Yes

Internet

Common service centre

Separately located

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

400

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

Non-farm households

Share of households farming, 2020

67%

Net sown area

200 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

200 / 100 / 0

Main irrigation source

Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Ganga Pur panchayat, Banmankhi 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

₹33.63 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹16.81 lakh

Received directly

₹50,975

Spent

₹37.80 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹13.15 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹16.01 lakh · received ₹6.70 lakh · spent ₹22.84 lakh · left ₹37,756

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹17.62 lakh · received ₹10.11 lakh · spent ₹14.96 lakh · left ₹12.77 lakh

Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied together make up the totals above.

Location

25.9099, 87.1973 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

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