Bara Digrui

Pursurah block · Hooghly district, West Bengal · PIN 712412 · village code 324434

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 4,739 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 55,805 — 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

4,739

Male / female

2,416 / 2,323

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

962

Children aged 0–6

496

Literacy rate

74.1%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

895 / 5

Working population

1,752

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

63.8%

Households

1,022

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school

Yes

Piped tap water

<50% habitation covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Bus

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank

Yes

Primary health centre

Sub Centre

Anganwadi

Yes

Internet

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

235

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

1,130

Non-farm households

131

Share of households farming, 2020

90%

Net sown area

199 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

194 / 199 / 61

Main irrigation source

Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Shyampur 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

₹82.28 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹89.22 lakh

Received directly

₹1.22 lakh

Spent

₹1.14 crore

Unspent at year end

₹58.78 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹22.67 lakh · received ₹36.66 lakh · spent ₹39.20 lakh · left ₹21.36 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹59.62 lakh · received ₹52.55 lakh · spent ₹74.74 lakh · left ₹37.43 lakh

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

Location

22.7865, 87.9617 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

Biggest population changes in Hooghly district · School staffing across Hooghly · …and across West Bengal