Benedik Pothar
Gomariguri block · Golaghat
district, Assam · PIN 785705
· village code 294726
Population 2011
886
Census of India
Population 2020
1,735
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+95.8%
849 people · 7.8% a year
Households
236
+24.2% vs 190 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
886
Male / female
461 / 425
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
922
Children aged 0–6
134
Literacy rate
58.6%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
1 / 72
Working population
389
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
85.1%
Households
190
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 10 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 2 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
150
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
50
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Boys
Computer lab
Yes
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
200
Non-farm households
35
Share of households farming, 2020
85%
Net sown area
118 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
118 / 50 / 50
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Sarupani panchayat, Gomariguri 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
₹34.76 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹14.07 lakh
Received directly
₹8.44 lakh
Spent
₹18.46 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹38.81 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹9.80 lakh · received ₹5.63 lakh · spent ₹14.26 lakh · left ₹1.17 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹24.96 lakh · received ₹8.44 lakh · spent ₹4.20 lakh · left ₹37.64 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
26.6312, 93.7260 —
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