Karanjabari

Habibpur block · Maldah district, West Bengal · PIN 732122 · village code 313151

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 187 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 1,038 — more than 2.5 times higher, which no village grows in nine years. One of the two is wrong and we cannot tell which.

Census 2011

Total population

187

Male / female

91 / 96

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

1,055

Children aged 0–6

Literacy rate

20.9%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

0 / 187

Working population

110

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

99.1%

Households

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school nearest 2 km away

Middle school nearest 2 km away

High school nearest 2 km away

Piped tap water

<50% habitation covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Van

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank nearest 2 km away

Primary health centre nearest 5 km away

Anganwadi

Yes

Internet

Yes

Common service centre

Colocated with Panchayat Bhawan

Farming

Farm households

153

Non-farm households

Share of households farming, 2020

96%

Net sown area

460 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

120 / 460 / 40

Main irrigation source

Surface water

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Habibpur panchayat, Habibpur 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

₹54.09 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹70.09 lakh

Received directly

₹1.26 lakh

Spent

₹77.93 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹47.50 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹18.68 lakh · received ₹28.80 lakh · spent ₹33.03 lakh · left ₹15.71 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹35.40 lakh · received ₹41.28 lakh · spent ₹44.90 lakh · left ₹31.79 lakh

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

Location

25.0090, 88.2966 — 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