Chenra
Bansihari block · Dinajpur Dakshin
district, West Bengal · PIN 733121
· village code 311729
Population 2011
559
Census of India
Population 2020
701
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+25.4%
142 people · 2.5% a year
Households
158
+24.4% vs 127 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
559
Male / female
286 / 273
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
955
Children aged 0–6
86
Literacy rate
51.0%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
22 / 319
Working population
235
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
97.5%
Households
127
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 2 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 5 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 1 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
Common service centre
Colocated with Panchayat Bhawan
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
97
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
24
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
88
Non-farm households
70
Share of households farming, 2020
56%
Net sown area
61 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
61 / 9 / 8
Main irrigation source
Surface water
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Brajaballavpur panchayat, Bansihari 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
₹74.32 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹93.48 lakh
Received directly
₹1.13 lakh
Spent
₹1.07 crore
Unspent at year end
₹62.21 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹23.01 lakh · received ₹38.41 lakh · spent ₹41.07 lakh · left ₹21.48 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹51.31 lakh · received ₹55.06 lakh · spent ₹65.65 lakh · left ₹40.72 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
25.4303, 88.3725 —
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