Kahalgaon
Goalpokhar Ii block · Dinajpur Uttar
district, West Bengal · PIN 733208
· village code 309365
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 3,236 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 9,841 — 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
3,236
Male / female
1,664 / 1,572
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
945
Children aged 0–6
718
Literacy rate
40.5%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
309 / 3
Working population
1,200
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
78.3%
Households
619
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 10 km away
No
High school nearest 5 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 1 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
Common service centre
Separately located
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
273
Teachers
6
Students per teacher
46
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
562
Non-farm households
160
Share of households farming, 2020
78%
Net sown area
120 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
100 / 120 / 29
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Bidyanandapur 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
₹84.74 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹92.57 lakh
Received directly
₹17,388
Spent
₹1.24 crore
Unspent at year end
₹53.69 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹28.87 lakh · received ₹38.04 lakh · spent ₹43.32 lakh · left ₹23.77 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹55.86 lakh · received ₹54.53 lakh · spent ₹80.48 lakh · left ₹29.92 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
26.0180, 87.9391 —
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Nearby villages
Kachna
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Dinajpur Uttar district ·
School
staffing across Dinajpur Uttar ·
…and across West Bengal