Madhuban (8/2)

Narkanda block · Shimla district, Himachal Pradesh · PIN 172030 · village code 23914

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 12 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 2,028 — 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

Male / female

8 / 4

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

500

Children aged 0–6

Literacy rate

91.7%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

0 / 0

Working population

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

85.7%

Households

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school

Yes

Piped tap water

100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Bus

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank nearest 5 km away

Primary health centre

PHC

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

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

None

Computer lab

Yes

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

430

Non-farm households

Share of households farming, 2020

93%

Net sown area

159 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

0 / 0 / 159

Main irrigation source

Other

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Mangsu panchayat, Narkanda 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

₹5.70 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹6.56 lakh

Received directly

₹4.45 lakh

Spent

₹4.87 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹11.83 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹1.42 lakh · received ₹2.71 lakh · spent ₹2.61 lakh · left ₹3.67 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹4.28 lakh · received ₹3.85 lakh · spent ₹2.27 lakh · left ₹8.16 lakh

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

Location

31.2973, 77.4800 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

Biggest population changes in Shimla district · School staffing across Shimla · …and across Himachal Pradesh