Bhikarchar
Santipur block · Nadia
district, West Bengal · PIN 741402
· village code 321972
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 20 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 89 — 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
20
Male / female
8 / 12
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,500
Children aged 0–6
0
Literacy rate
80.0%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
0 / 0
Working population
7
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
71.4%
Households
5
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water
<50% habitation covered
All-weather road nearest 2 km away
No
Public transport
Van
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 5 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 5 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
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
21
Teachers
5
Students per teacher
4
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
15
Non-farm households
7
Share of households farming, 2020
68%
Net sown area
13 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
12 / 13 / 6
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Nabla panchayat, Santipur 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
₹99.88 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹1.13 crore
Received directly
₹1.48 lakh
Spent
₹1.60 crore
Unspent at year end
₹54.49 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹35.12 lakh · received ₹46.33 lakh · spent ₹58.08 lakh · left ₹24.85 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹64.77 lakh · received ₹66.40 lakh · spent ₹1.02 crore · left ₹29.64 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
23.2252, 88.5057 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Nadia district ·
School
staffing across Nadia ·
…and across West Bengal