Akhra
Katwa-Ii block · Purba Bardhaman
district, West Bengal · PIN 713502
· village code 319382
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 3,028 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 783 — a drop of more than 40%. One of the two is wrong and we cannot
tell which.
Census 2011
Total population
3,028
Male / female
1,534 / 1,494
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
974
Children aged 0–6
240
Literacy rate
72.3%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
376 / 58
Working population
1,123
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
79.5%
Households
778
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 2 km away
No
High school
Yes
Piped tap water nearest 5 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 2 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
130
Teachers
6
Students per teacher
22
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
80
Non-farm households
700
Share of households farming, 2020
10%
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Jagadanandspur panchayat, Katwa-Ii 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
₹45.30 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹68.40 lakh
Received directly
₹72,755
Spent
₹76.91 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹37.52 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹12.37 lakh · received ₹28.11 lakh · spent ₹31.17 lakh · left ₹10.04 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹32.93 lakh · received ₹40.29 lakh · spent ₹45.74 lakh · left ₹27.48 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
23.5675, 88.1637 —
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