Makarhat
Hemtabad block · Dinajpur Uttar
district, West Bengal · PIN 733156
· village code 309802
Population 2011
755
Census of India
Population 2020
1,440
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+90.7%
685 people · 7.4% a year
Households
272
+59.1% vs 171 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
755
Male / female
387 / 368
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
951
Children aged 0–6
128
Literacy rate
55.8%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
211 / 0
Working population
261
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
95.8%
Households
171
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 5 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Van
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 10 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
156
Teachers
5
Students per teacher
31
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
215
Non-farm households
25
Share of households farming, 2020
90%
Net sown area
200 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
200 / 196 / 25
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Chainagar panchayat, Hemtabad 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
₹39.25 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹74.20 lakh
Received directly
₹1.13 lakh
Spent
₹77.67 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹36.91 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹17.00 lakh · received ₹30.49 lakh · spent ₹31.31 lakh · left ₹17.31 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹22.24 lakh · received ₹43.71 lakh · spent ₹46.35 lakh · left ₹19.60 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
25.7658, 88.2716 —
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