Kantakhali

Hasnabad block · 24 Paraganas North district, West Bengal · PIN 743426 · village code 323973

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 1,155 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 3,500 — 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

1,155

Male / female

544 / 611

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

1,123

Children aged 0–6

137

Literacy rate

49.5%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

27 / 6

Working population

676

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

5.9%

Households

274

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school nearest 1 km away

Piped tap water

50 to 100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Bus

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank nearest 1 km away

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

262

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Yes

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

350

Non-farm households

600

Share of households farming, 2020

37%

Net sown area

10 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

5 / 5 / 10

Main irrigation source

Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Barunhat Rameswarpur panchayat, Hasnabad 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

₹81.27 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹77.04 lakh

Received directly

₹79,480

Spent

₹1.05 crore

Unspent at year end

₹53.63 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹11.96 lakh · received ₹31.66 lakh · spent ₹41.29 lakh · left ₹3.12 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹69.31 lakh · received ₹45.38 lakh · spent ₹64.18 lakh · left ₹50.51 lakh

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

Location

22.5156, 88.9673 — view on OpenStreetMap

Nearby villages

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How this village compares

Biggest population changes in 24 Paraganas North district · School staffing across 24 Paraganas North · …and across West Bengal