Kusidha

Harishchandrapur-I block · Maldah district, West Bengal · PIN 732140 · village code 311998

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 4,560 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 2,514 — a drop of more than 40%. One of the two is wrong and we cannot tell which.

Census 2011

Total population

4,560

Male / female

2,351 / 2,209

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

940

Children aged 0–6

629

Literacy rate

53.3%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

1,242 / 12

Working population

1,727

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

58.7%

Households

1,108

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school

Yes

Piped tap water

50 to 100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Bus

Electricity

4-8 Hrs

Bank

Yes

Primary health centre

PHC

Anganwadi

Yes

Internet

Yes

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

145

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Yes

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

Non-farm households

225

Share of households farming, 2020

27%

Net sown area

40 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

40 / 13 / 10

Main irrigation source

Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Kusidha panchayat, Harishchandrapur-I 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

₹1.23 crore

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹1.05 crore

Received directly

₹2.84 lakh

Spent

₹1.28 crore

Unspent at year end

₹1.03 crore

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹53.59 lakh · received ₹43.09 lakh · spent ₹62.72 lakh · left ₹36.81 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹69.19 lakh · received ₹61.67 lakh · spent ₹65.07 lakh · left ₹65.79 lakh

Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied together make up the totals above.

Location

25.5351, 87.9499 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

Biggest population changes in Maldah district · School staffing across Maldah · …and across West Bengal