Masinan

Pursurah block · Hooghly district, West Bengal · PIN 712415 · village code 324417

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 3,719 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 14,480 — 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

3,719

Male / female

1,884 / 1,835

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

974

Children aged 0–6

358

Literacy rate

76.8%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

485 / 26

Working population

1,548

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

64.7%

Households

872

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school nearest 5 km away

High school

Yes

Piped tap water

<50% habitation covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Auto

Electricity

>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

850

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

Non-farm households

3,335

Share of households farming, 2020

Net sown area

160 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

140 / 0 / 160

Main irrigation source

Canals

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Pursurah-Ii panchayat, Pursurah 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

₹24.88 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹41.41 lakh

Received directly

₹13,706

Spent

₹40.20 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹26.23 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹6.44 lakh · received ₹17.06 lakh · spent ₹15.01 lakh · left ₹8.63 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹18.44 lakh · received ₹24.35 lakh · spent ₹25.19 lakh · left ₹17.61 lakh

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

Location

22.8468, 87.9251 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

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