Kesath

Kesath block · Buxar district, Bihar · PIN 802125 · village code 248100

Population 2011

14,843

Census of India

Population 2020

14,855

Mission Antyodaya survey

Change

+0.1%

12 people · 0.0% a year

Households

2,475

+5.3% vs 2,351 in 2011

Census 2011

Total population

14,843

Male / female

7,693 / 7,150

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

929

Children aged 0–6

2,747

Literacy rate

55.1%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

2,372 / 29

Working population

4,977

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

70.2%

Households

2,351

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school

Yes

Piped tap water

50 to 100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Auto

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank

Yes

Primary health centre

PHC

Anganwadi

Yes

Internet

Yes

Common service centre

Colocated with Panchayat Bhawan

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

185

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Yes

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

1,938

Non-farm households

537

Share of households farming, 2020

78%

Net sown area

1,272 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

1,272 / 1,272 / 0

Main irrigation source

Canals

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Kesath panchayat, Kesath 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

₹24.78 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹23.21 lakh

Received directly

₹58,209

Spent

₹25.19 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹23.38 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹6.62 lakh · received ₹9.25 lakh · spent ₹15.76 lakh · left ₹11,102

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹18.16 lakh · received ₹13.96 lakh · spent ₹9.43 lakh · left ₹23.27 lakh

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

Location

25.4234, 84.2488 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

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