Kastarai
Hemtabad block · Dinajpur Uttar
district, West Bengal · PIN 733134
· village code 309845
Population 2011
934
Census of India
Population 2020
1,080
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+15.6%
146 people · 1.6% a year
Households
248
+12.2% vs 221 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
934
Male / female
470 / 464
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
987
Children aged 0–6
147
Literacy rate
57.5%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
172 / 93
Working population
594
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
93.6%
Households
221
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water
100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Van
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
62
Teachers
2
Students per teacher
31
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
230
Non-farm households
18
Share of households farming, 2020
93%
Net sown area
65 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
65 / 15 / 4
Main irrigation source
Surface water
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Bishnupur 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
₹42.36 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹91.08 lakh
Received directly
₹85,934
Spent
₹91.48 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹42.82 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹13.78 lakh · received ₹37.43 lakh · spent ₹33.41 lakh · left ₹18.66 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹28.58 lakh · received ₹53.65 lakh · spent ₹58.07 lakh · left ₹24.16 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
25.6216, 88.1248 —
view on OpenStreetMap
Nearby villages
Kashidanga
compare · Kashipur
compare · Kashiya
compare · Kasimpur
compare · Kasur
compare · Katabari
compare · Katgaon
compare · Kathandari
compare
How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Dinajpur Uttar district ·
School
staffing across Dinajpur Uttar ·
…and across West Bengal