Padumpur
Sonbarsa block · Saharsa
district, Bihar · PIN 852129
· village code 226538
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 1,069 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 5,350 — 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
1,069
Male / female
545 / 524
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
961
Children aged 0–6
213
Literacy rate
51.9%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
188 / 0
Working population
232
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
93.1%
Households
202
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 2 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 5 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
Yes
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
275
Teachers
6
Students per teacher
46
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
455
Non-farm households
80
Share of households farming, 2020
85%
Net sown area
32 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
30 / 32 / 32
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Dehad panchayat, Sonbarsa 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
₹69.46 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹17.07 lakh
Received directly
₹47,901
Spent
₹38.57 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹48.44 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹22.37 lakh · received ₹6.80 lakh · spent ₹22.55 lakh · left ₹7.10 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹47.10 lakh · received ₹10.27 lakh · spent ₹16.02 lakh · left ₹41.34 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
25.7117, 86.6916 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Saharsa district ·
School
staffing across Saharsa ·
…and across Bihar