Sankarpur
Balurghat block · Dinajpur Dakshin
district, West Bengal · PIN 733103
· village code 311316
Population 2011
928
Census of India
Population 2020
962
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+3.7%
34 people · 0.4% a year
Households
242
+1.7% vs 238 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
928
Male / female
479 / 449
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
937
Children aged 0–6
91
Literacy rate
57.5%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
507 / 330
Working population
454
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
87.0%
Households
238
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 2 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water
only one habitation is covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
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
43
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
11
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
146
Non-farm households
96
Share of households farming, 2020
60%
Net sown area
56 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
56 / 22 / 9
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Amritakhand panchayat, Balurghat 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
₹50.21 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹94.00 lakh
Received directly
₹86,534
Spent
₹1.01 crore
Unspent at year end
₹44.51 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹20.62 lakh · received ₹38.67 lakh · spent ₹44.21 lakh · left ₹15.94 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹29.59 lakh · received ₹55.33 lakh · spent ₹56.35 lakh · left ₹28.57 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
25.2252, 88.7716 —
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