Raihat
Sainthia block · Birbhum
district, West Bengal · PIN 731234
· village code 317239
Population 2011
676
Census of India
Population 2020
696
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+3.0%
20 people · 0.3% a year
Households
160
+2.6% vs 156 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
676
Male / female
341 / 335
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
982
Children aged 0–6
115
Literacy rate
42.5%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
50 / 625
Working population
386
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
97.7%
Households
156
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 10 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road nearest 10 km away
No
Public transport nearest 10 km away
No
Electricity
—
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
57
Teachers
2
Students per teacher
29
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
Yes
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
80
Non-farm households
52
Share of households farming, 2020
61%
Net sown area
25 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
25 / 8 / 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
23.9486, 87.6765 —
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