Bahiri
Bolpur-Sriniketan block · Birbhum
district, West Bengal · PIN 731240
· village code 317860
Population 2011
5,222
Census of India
Population 2020
5,510
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+5.5%
288 people · 0.6% a year
Households
1,420
+9.0% vs 1,303 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
5,222
Male / female
2,666 / 2,556
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
959
Children aged 0–6
581
Literacy rate
56.5%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
2,855 / 247
Working population
2,293
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
64.5%
Households
1,303
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water
50 to 100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank
Yes
Primary health centre
Sub Centre
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
Yes
Common service centre
Colocated with Panchayat Bhawan
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
740
Teachers
9
Students per teacher
82
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
0
Non-farm households
0
Net sown area
530 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
530 / 420 / 98
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Bahiri-Panchshowa 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
₹80.72 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹1.07 crore
Received directly
₹73,812
Spent
₹1.28 crore
Unspent at year end
₹60.54 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹27.70 lakh · received ₹44.03 lakh · spent ₹46.58 lakh · left ₹25.89 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹53.02 lakh · received ₹63.01 lakh · spent ₹81.38 lakh · left ₹34.65 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
23.6396, 87.7608 —
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