Dewani

Manteswar block · Purba Bardhaman district, West Bengal · PIN 713422 · village code 319734

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 3,593 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 10,003 — more than 2.5 times higher, which no village grows in nine years. One of the two is wrong and we cannot tell which.

Census 2011

Total population

3,593

Male / female

1,806 / 1,787

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

989

Children aged 0–6

325

Literacy rate

69.3%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

1,086 / 779

Working population

1,430

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

81.0%

Households

888

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school

Yes

Piped tap water

100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Van

Electricity

8-12 Hrs

Bank

Yes

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

185

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

550

Non-farm households

350

Share of households farming, 2020

61%

Net sown area

110 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

92 / 110 / 5

Main irrigation source

Other

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Jamna panchayat, Manteswar 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

₹24.77 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹1.05 crore

Received directly

₹77,828

Spent

₹86.75 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹43.32 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹14.11 lakh · received ₹33.05 lakh · spent ₹27.97 lakh · left ₹19.97 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹10.66 lakh · received ₹71.47 lakh · spent ₹58.79 lakh · left ₹23.35 lakh

Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied together make up the totals above.

Location

23.3904, 88.1023 — view on OpenStreetMap

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