Birsing
Naxal Bari block · Darjeeling
district, West Bengal · PIN 734429
· village code 306622
Population 2011
1,380
Census of India
Population 2020
1,404
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+1.7%
24 people · 0.2% a year
Households
324
+8.7% vs 298 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,380
Male / female
683 / 697
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,020
Children aged 0–6
195
Literacy rate
49.9%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
536 / 432
Working population
537
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
50.1%
Households
298
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water
only one habitation is covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport nearest 2 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 5 km away
No
Primary health centre
Sub Centre
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
48
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
12
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
211
Non-farm households
110
Share of households farming, 2020
66%
Net sown area
51 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
51 / 17 / 18
Main irrigation source
Canals
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Hatighisa panchayat, Naxal Bari 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
₹57.29 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹75.11 lakh
Received directly
₹81,348
Spent
₹87.40 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹45.82 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹21.92 lakh · received ₹30.87 lakh · spent ₹37.95 lakh · left ₹15.65 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹35.38 lakh · received ₹44.24 lakh · spent ₹49.45 lakh · left ₹30.17 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
26.6847, 88.2458 —
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