Penchera
Goghat-I block · Hooghly
district, West Bengal · PIN 712616
· village code 324112
Population 2011
641
Census of India
Population 2020
730
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+13.9%
89 people · 1.5% a year
Households
151
+6.3% vs 142 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
641
Male / female
334 / 307
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
919
Children aged 0–6
73
Literacy rate
70.4%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
126 / 0
Working population
239
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
92.9%
Households
142
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 1 km away
No
Piped tap water
<50% habitation covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 1 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 1 km away
No
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
54
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
18
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
No
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
125
Non-farm households
25
Share of households farming, 2020
83%
Net sown area
53 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
53 / 24 / 0
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Bali 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
₹36.88 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹79.93 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹97.81 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹19.01 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹6.42 lakh · received ₹32.85 lakh · spent ₹32.44 lakh · left ₹6.83 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹30.47 lakh · received ₹47.08 lakh · spent ₹65.38 lakh · left ₹12.17 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.8765, 87.7910 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Hooghly district ·
School
staffing across Hooghly ·
…and across West Bengal