Saora
Goghat-I block · Hooghly
district, West Bengal · PIN 712616
· village code 324097
Population 2011
4,290
Census of India
Population 2020
4,795
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+11.8%
505 people · 1.2% a year
Households
957
+1.1% vs 947 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
4,290
Male / female
2,227 / 2,063
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
926
Children aged 0–6
484
Literacy rate
69.7%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
1,971 / 0
Working population
1,439
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
62.3%
Households
947
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water nearest 5 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank
Yes
Primary health centre
Sub Centre
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
Yes
Common service centre
Separately located
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
255
Teachers
10
Students per teacher
26
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
752
Non-farm households
107
Share of households farming, 2020
88%
Net sown area
67 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
67 / 67 / 67
Main irrigation source
Canals
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Saora panchayat, Goghat-I 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
₹29.91 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹57.56 lakh
Received directly
₹27,784
Spent
₹58.97 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹28.77 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹6.11 lakh · received ₹23.65 lakh · spent ₹17.41 lakh · left ₹12.63 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹23.80 lakh · received ₹33.90 lakh · spent ₹41.56 lakh · left ₹16.14 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.8829, 87.7333 —
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