Sarala
Kushmandi block · Dinajpur Dakshin
district, West Bengal · PIN 733132
· village code 310382
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 2,848 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 1,520 — a drop of more than 40%. One of the two is wrong and we cannot
tell which.
Census 2011
Total population
2,848
Male / female
1,416 / 1,432
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,011
Children aged 0–6
372
Literacy rate
51.8%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
2,605 / 183
Working population
1,069
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
84.9%
Households
614
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water
<50% habitation covered
All-weather road
No
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
—
Bank
Yes
Primary health centre
PHC
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
250
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
63
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
437
Non-farm households
11
Share of households farming, 2020
98%
Net sown area
2 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
2 / 1 / 1
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Beroil panchayat, Kushmandi 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
₹52.70 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹89.12 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹1.08 crore
Unspent at year end
₹33.36 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹10.99 lakh · received ₹36.63 lakh · spent ₹31.24 lakh · left ₹16.37 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹41.71 lakh · received ₹52.50 lakh · spent ₹77.22 lakh · left ₹16.99 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
25.4764, 88.3040 —
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