Garkhola
Sitalkuchi block · Coochbehar
district, West Bengal · PIN 736172
· village code 308819
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 502 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 1,452 — 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
502
Male / female
269 / 233
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
866
Children aged 0–6
43
Literacy rate
73.7%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
314 / 0
Working population
155
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
97.4%
Households
116
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 2 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 2 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Van
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre
Sub Centre
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
248
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
62
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
214
Non-farm households
145
Share of households farming, 2020
60%
Net sown area
40 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
40 / 39 / 15
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Gosairhat panchayat, Sitalkuchi 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
₹51.21 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹81.55 lakh
Received directly
₹57,929
Spent
₹90.06 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹43.27 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹15.68 lakh · received ₹33.51 lakh · spent ₹32.70 lakh · left ₹17.07 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹35.53 lakh · received ₹48.04 lakh · spent ₹57.36 lakh · left ₹26.20 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
26.2162, 89.1930 —
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How this village compares
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staffing across Coochbehar ·
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