Chikni
Goalpokhar Ii block · Dinajpur Uttar
district, West Bengal · PIN 733208
· village code 309351
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 445 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 2,249 — 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
445
Male / female
237 / 208
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
878
Children aged 0–6
76
Literacy rate
16.0%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
0 / 0
Working population
118
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
90.7%
Households
83
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 5 km away
No
High school nearest 5 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road nearest 5 km away
No
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
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
260
Teachers
7
Students per teacher
37
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
150
Non-farm households
79
Share of households farming, 2020
66%
Net sown area
46 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
46 / 40 / 10
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Sahapur-Ii 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
₹46.76 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹71.66 lakh
Received directly
₹2.81 lakh
Spent
₹85.70 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹35.54 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹13.68 lakh · received ₹29.45 lakh · spent ₹28.98 lakh · left ₹15.18 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹33.09 lakh · received ₹42.21 lakh · spent ₹56.72 lakh · left ₹20.35 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
26.0000, 87.8655 —
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