Daikota
Sainthia block · Birbhum
district, West Bengal · PIN 731234
· village code 317230
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 434 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 1,240 — 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
434
Male / female
212 / 222
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,047
Children aged 0–6
47
Literacy rate
56.5%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
123 / 195
Working population
203
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
70.4%
Households
105
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road nearest 10 km away
No
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 10 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 10 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
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
87
Teachers
2
Students per teacher
44
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
Yes
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
127
Non-farm households
3
Share of households farming, 2020
98%
Net sown area
1 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
1 / 0 / 0
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Deriapur panchayat, Sainthia 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
₹32.22 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹32.10 lakh
Received directly
₹68,904
Spent
₹56.35 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹8.66 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹12.27 lakh · received ₹13.23 lakh · spent ₹24.34 lakh · left ₹1.48 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹19.95 lakh · received ₹18.86 lakh · spent ₹32.01 lakh · left ₹7.18 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
23.9598, 87.6508 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Birbhum district ·
School
staffing across Birbhum ·
…and across West Bengal