Balagram
Cooch Behar-I block · Coochbehar
district, West Bengal · PIN 736157
· village code 308122
Population 2011
1,130
Census of India
Population 2020
1,648
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+45.8%
518 people · 4.3% a year
Households
282
+1.8% vs 277 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,130
Male / female
590 / 540
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
915
Children aged 0–6
151
Literacy rate
66.8%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
1,052 / 0
Working population
503
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
81.3%
Households
277
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 1 km away
No
Piped tap water
<50% habitation covered
All-weather road nearest 5 km away
No
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank
Yes
Primary health centre
Sub Centre
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
Yes
Common service centre
Colocated with Panchayat Bhawan
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
250
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
83
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
220
Non-farm households
25
Share of households farming, 2020
90%
Net sown area
100 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
100 / 80 / 28
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Chandamari 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
₹62.93 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹74.64 lakh
Received directly
₹56,604
Spent
₹1.25 crore
Unspent at year end
₹13.11 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹18.67 lakh · received ₹30.67 lakh · spent ₹46.17 lakh · left ₹3.74 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹44.27 lakh · received ₹43.97 lakh · spent ₹78.87 lakh · left ₹9.36 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
26.4505, 89.2529 —
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