Chitaura
Goalpokhar Ii block · Dinajpur Uttar
district, West Bengal · PIN 733208
· village code 309279
Population 2011
2,533
Census of India
Population 2020
3,042
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+20.1%
509 people · 2.1% a year
Households
578
+7.2% vs 539 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
2,533
Male / female
1,327 / 1,206
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
909
Children aged 0–6
426
Literacy rate
40.4%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
682 / 259
Working population
983
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
87.1%
Households
539
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 10 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport nearest 1 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 10 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
135
Teachers
5
Students per teacher
27
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
379
Non-farm households
5
Share of households farming, 2020
99%
Net sown area
291 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
291 / 25 / 6
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Toriyal panchayat, Goalpokher - 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
₹62.13 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹82.27 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹1.01 crore
Unspent at year end
₹43.09 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹24.08 lakh · received ₹33.81 lakh · spent ₹39.12 lakh · left ₹18.76 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹38.05 lakh · received ₹48.46 lakh · spent ₹62.19 lakh · left ₹24.33 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
25.9808, 87.9712 —
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