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Bhoterhat

Cooch Behar-I block · Coochbehar district, West Bengal · PIN 736157 · village code 308114

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 282 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 1,604 — 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
282
Male / female
147 / 135
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
918
Children aged 0–6
45
Literacy rate
69.5%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
209 / 0
Working population
104
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
78.8%
Households
64

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 2 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 5 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport nearest 2 km away
No
Electricity
8-12 Hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 1 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
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
116
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
39
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes

Farming

Farm households
250
Non-farm households
73
Share of households farming, 2020
77%
Net sown area
50 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
50 / 20 / 0
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Falmari panchayat, Cooch Behar-I 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
₹43.40 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹82.93 lakh
Received directly
₹20,913
Spent
₹1.04 crore
Unspent at year end
₹22.25 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹10.00 lakh · received ₹34.08 lakh · spent ₹33.18 lakh · left ₹11.11 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹33.40 lakh · received ₹48.85 lakh · spent ₹71.11 lakh · left ₹11.14 lakh

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

Location

26.2963, 89.3255 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

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