Puraina
Bijaipur block · Gopalganj
district, Bihar · PIN 841508
· village code 229891
Population 2011
822
Census of India
Population 2020
907
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+10.3%
85 people · 1.1% a year
Households
152
+8.6% vs 140 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
822
Male / female
396 / 426
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,076
Children aged 0–6
108
Literacy rate
66.8%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
142 / 79
Working population
196
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
87.2%
Households
140
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 5 km away
No
Piped tap water
<50% habitation covered
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
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
230
Teachers
7
Students per teacher
33
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
135
Non-farm households
17
Share of households farming, 2020
89%
Net sown area
40 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
39 / 40 / 7
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Belwa panchayat, Bijaipur 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
₹24.00 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹14.05 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹26.34 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹11.71 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹8.51 lakh · received ₹5.60 lakh · spent ₹6.94 lakh · left ₹7.17 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹15.49 lakh · received ₹8.45 lakh · spent ₹19.40 lakh · left ₹4.54 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
26.4685, 84.0135 —
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