Balasan
Maynaguri block · Jalpaiguri
district, West Bengal · PIN 735305
· village code 307565
Population 2011
2,300
Census of India
Population 2020
2,429
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+5.6%
129 people · 0.6% a year
Households
453
-8.1% vs 493 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
2,300
Male / female
1,200 / 1,100
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
917
Children aged 0–6
355
Literacy rate
66.7%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
1,832 / 3
Working population
759
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
77.6%
Households
493
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
No
High school
No
Piped tap water
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank
No
Primary health centre
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
Yes
Common service centre
Separately located
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
305
Teachers
9
Students per teacher
34
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
390
Non-farm households
61
Share of households farming, 2020
86%
Net sown area
69 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
69 / 12 / 1
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Padamoti-I panchayat, Maynaguri 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
₹73.05 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹61.69 lakh
Received directly
₹1.06 lakh
Spent
₹1.07 crore
Unspent at year end
₹28.85 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹24.45 lakh · received ₹25.35 lakh · spent ₹38.54 lakh · left ₹12.32 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹48.60 lakh · received ₹36.34 lakh · spent ₹68.41 lakh · left ₹16.53 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
26.5045, 89.2143 —
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