Jot
English Bazar block · Maldah
district, West Bengal · PIN 732143
· village code 313386
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 1,479 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 3,792 — 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
1,479
Male / female
762 / 717
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
941
Children aged 0–6
130
Literacy rate
77.6%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
1,181 / 8
Working population
484
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
12.0%
Households
343
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
No
Piped tap water
50 to 100% habitations covered
All-weather road nearest 1 km away
No
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank
No
Primary health centre
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
120
Teachers
5
Students per teacher
24
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
Yes
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
50
Non-farm households
0
Share of households farming, 2020
100%
Net sown area
50 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
0 / 50 / 0
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Kotwali panchayat, English Bazar 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
₹64.14 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹81.30 lakh
Received directly
₹38,753
Spent
₹83.66 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹62.17 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹24.05 lakh · received ₹33.41 lakh · spent ₹43.68 lakh · left ₹14.17 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹40.08 lakh · received ₹47.89 lakh · spent ₹39.98 lakh · left ₹48.00 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
25.0450, 88.1236 —
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Nearby villages
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Maldah district ·
School
staffing across Maldah ·
…and across West Bengal