Layek Bazar
Bolpur-Sriniketan block · Birbhum
district, West Bengal · PIN 731204
· village code 317843
Population 2011
2,910
Census of India
Population 2020
4,991
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+71.5%
2,081 people · 6.2% a year
Households
1,095
+61.0% vs 680 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
2,910
Male / female
1,474 / 1,436
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
974
Children aged 0–6
384
Literacy rate
61.1%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
637 / 295
Working population
1,062
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
17.6%
Households
680
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 1 km away
No
Piped tap water
100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 1 km away
No
Primary health centre
Sub Centre
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
154
Teachers
7
Students per teacher
22
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
Yes
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
200
Non-farm households
895
Share of households farming, 2020
18%
Net sown area
60 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
60 / 40 / 10
Main irrigation source
Canals
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Kankalitala panchayat, Bolpur-Sriniketan 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
₹31.49 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹77.64 lakh
Received directly
₹44,771
Spent
₹63.38 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹46.20 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹5.46 lakh · received ₹31.91 lakh · spent ₹17.97 lakh · left ₹19.84 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹26.04 lakh · received ₹45.73 lakh · spent ₹45.41 lakh · left ₹26.36 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
23.7609, 87.7887 —
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