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Pestharjhar

Cooch Behar Ii block · Coochbehar district, West Bengal · PIN 736165 · village code 308315

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 5,536 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 1,458 — a drop of more than 40%. One of the two is wrong and we cannot tell which.

Census 2011

Total population
5,536
Male / female
2,848 / 2,688
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
944
Children aged 0–6
628
Literacy rate
70.1%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
3,774 / 0
Working population
1,899
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
28.8%
Households
1,269

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
Auto
Electricity
8-12 Hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 2 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
119
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
30
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes

Farming

Farm households
250
Non-farm households
56
Share of households farming, 2020
82%
Net sown area
1 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
1 / 1 / 0
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Dhangdhinguri panchayat, Cooch Behar Ii 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
₹72.46 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹84.31 lakh
Received directly
₹1.22 lakh
Spent
₹1.09 crore
Unspent at year end
₹49.24 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹20.52 lakh · received ₹34.65 lakh · spent ₹38.38 lakh · left ₹18.00 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹51.94 lakh · received ₹49.66 lakh · spent ₹70.37 lakh · left ₹31.24 lakh

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

Location

26.3784, 89.4184 — view on OpenStreetMap

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