Bejra
Bolpur-Sriniketan block · Birbhum
district, West Bengal · PIN 731240
· village code 317888
Population 2011
2,497
Census of India
Population 2020
2,748
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+10.1%
251 people · 1.1% a year
Households
667
+9.9% vs 607 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
2,497
Male / female
1,286 / 1,211
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
942
Children aged 0–6
296
Literacy rate
62.7%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
1,447 / 459
Working population
981
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
95.2%
Households
607
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 1 km away
No
Piped tap water
50 to 100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 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
140
Teachers
6
Students per teacher
23
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
585
Non-farm households
14
Share of households farming, 2020
98%
Net sown area
21 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
21 / 14 / 6
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Singhee 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
₹88.84 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹1.21 crore
Received directly
₹1.20 lakh
Spent
₹1.38 crore
Unspent at year end
₹72.90 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹24.77 lakh · received ₹49.61 lakh · spent ₹46.41 lakh · left ₹29.16 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹64.07 lakh · received ₹71.00 lakh · spent ₹91.34 lakh · left ₹43.74 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
23.5955, 87.8015 —
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