Shikarpur
Karandighi block · Dinajpur Uttar
district, West Bengal · PIN 733201
· village code 309382
Population 2011
1,499
Census of India
Population 2020
1,823
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+21.6%
324 people · 2.2% a year
Households
352
+21.0% vs 291 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,499
Male / female
784 / 715
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
912
Children aged 0–6
240
Literacy rate
51.3%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
705 / 284
Working population
548
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
46.5%
Households
291
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
No
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 5 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport nearest 5 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 5 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 1 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
Yes
Common service centre
No CSC
Farming
Farm households
245
Non-farm households
90
Share of households farming, 2020
73%
Net sown area
55 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
51 / 55 / 1
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Dalkhola-I panchayat, Karandighi 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
₹14.40 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹77.84 lakh
Received directly
₹28,080
Spent
₹62.71 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹29.81 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹12.82 lakh · received ₹24.61 lakh · spent ₹24.70 lakh · left ₹13.01 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹1.59 lakh · received ₹53.23 lakh · spent ₹38.01 lakh · left ₹16.80 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
25.9820, 87.8721 —
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