Benikaner Alias Rahatpur
Islampur block · Dinajpur Uttar
district, West Bengal · PIN 733202
· village code 309032
Population 2011
2,343
Census of India
Population 2020
4,500
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+92.1%
2,157 people · 7.5% a year
Households
716
+54.3% vs 464 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
2,343
Male / female
1,190 / 1,153
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
969
Children aged 0–6
397
Literacy rate
49.0%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
756 / 41
Working population
666
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
65.5%
Households
464
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 2 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Van
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 1 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
Yes
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
150
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
38
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
500
Non-farm households
45
Share of households farming, 2020
92%
Net sown area
70 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
70 / 32 / 7
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Panditpota-I panchayat, Islampur 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
₹37.49 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹62.64 lakh
Received directly
₹43,872
Spent
₹86.57 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹14.00 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹16.29 lakh · received ₹25.74 lakh · spent ₹35.73 lakh · left ₹6.74 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹21.20 lakh · received ₹36.90 lakh · spent ₹50.84 lakh · left ₹7.26 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
26.2283, 88.1879 —
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