Soulmari

Mekliganj block · Coochbehar district, West Bengal · PIN 735224 · village code 307731

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 5,418 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 54,180 — 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

5,418

Male / female

2,762 / 2,656

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

962

Children aged 0–6

723

Literacy rate

60.2%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

5,034 / 0

Working population

2,472

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

83.2%

Households

1,307

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

Bus

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank

Primary health centre

Sub Centre

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

489

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

11,020

Non-farm households

2,050

Share of households farming, 2020

84%

Net sown area

32 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

32 / 25 / 0

Main irrigation source

Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Ranirhat panchayat, Mekliganj 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

₹20.96 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹90.30 lakh

Received directly

₹1.46 lakh

Spent

₹92.55 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹20.17 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹16.51 lakh · received ₹28.55 lakh · spent ₹35.70 lakh · left ₹10.81 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹4.46 lakh · received ₹61.75 lakh · spent ₹56.85 lakh · left ₹9.36 lakh

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

Location

26.3423, 88.7874 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

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