Shalkhair
Kushmandi block · Dinajpur Dakshin
district, West Bengal · PIN 733132
· village code 310479
Population 2011
138
Census of India
Population 2020
154
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+11.6%
16 people · 1.2% a year
Households
36
+12.5% vs 32 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
138
Male / female
67 / 71
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,060
Children aged 0–6
26
Literacy rate
37.0%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
138 / 0
Working population
77
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
97.4%
Households
32
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 2 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 5 km away
No
All-weather road nearest 2 km away
No
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 5 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 2 km away
No
Anganwadi nearest 1 km away
No
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
4
Students per teacher
20
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
27
Non-farm households
9
Share of households farming, 2020
75%
Net sown area
70 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
70 / 0 / 20
Main irrigation source
Surface water
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Kushmandi 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
₹94.79 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹92.88 lakh
Received directly
₹1.96 lakh
Spent
₹1.37 crore
Unspent at year end
₹52.41 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹17.56 lakh · received ₹38.17 lakh · spent ₹36.69 lakh · left ₹21.00 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹77.23 lakh · received ₹54.71 lakh · spent ₹1.01 crore · left ₹31.42 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
25.5135, 88.3847 —
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