Purba Shankarpur
Kaliaganj block · Dinajpur Uttar
district, West Bengal · PIN 733129
· village code 310008
Population 2011
293
Census of India
Population 2020
350
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+19.4%
57 people · 2.0% a year
Households
78
+34.5% vs 58 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
293
Male / female
157 / 136
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
866
Children aged 0–6
36
Literacy rate
63.5%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
71 / 0
Working population
152
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
90.8%
Households
58
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 2 km away
No
High school nearest 10 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 5 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
8-12 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
80
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
27
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
48
Non-farm households
2
Share of households farming, 2020
96%
Net sown area
1 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
1 / 0 / 1
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Bochadanga panchayat, Kaliaganj 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
₹48.25 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹1.06 crore
Received directly
₹5,977
Spent
₹1.03 crore
Unspent at year end
₹50.80 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹15.12 lakh · received ₹43.46 lakh · spent ₹36.93 lakh · left ₹21.67 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹33.13 lakh · received ₹62.19 lakh · spent ₹66.22 lakh · left ₹29.14 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
25.5928, 88.3454 —
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