Basta
Goalpokhar-I block · Dinajpur Uttar
district, West Bengal · PIN 733210
· village code 309057
Population 2011
1,839
Census of India
Population 2020
2,452
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+33.3%
613 people · 3.2% a year
Households
444
+22.3% vs 363 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,839
Male / female
960 / 879
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
916
Children aged 0–6
298
Literacy rate
27.8%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
0 / 12
Working population
504
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
91.1%
Households
363
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 5 km away
No
High school nearest 5 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 2 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport nearest 5 km away
No
Electricity
>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
254
Teachers
7
Students per teacher
36
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
No
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
424
Non-farm households
20
Share of households farming, 2020
96%
Net sown area
61 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
15 / 15 / 61
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Dharampur-Ii panchayat, Goalpokher - 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
₹47.25 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹78.37 lakh
Received directly
₹8.45 lakh
Spent
₹92.71 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹41.37 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹11.71 lakh · received ₹32.21 lakh · spent ₹27.83 lakh · left ₹16.65 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹35.54 lakh · received ₹46.16 lakh · spent ₹64.88 lakh · left ₹24.72 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
26.0901, 88.0333 —
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