Rajipur
Dhaniakhali block · Hooghly
district, West Bengal · PIN 712302
· village code 324552
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 3,659 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 9,429 — 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
3,659
Male / female
1,848 / 1,811
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
980
Children aged 0–6
339
Literacy rate
68.7%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
1,375 / 366
Working population
1,732
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
87.9%
Households
897
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 2 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 2 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
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
146
Teachers
7
Students per teacher
21
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
780
Non-farm households
174
Share of households farming, 2020
82%
Net sown area
90 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
90 / 80 / 18
Main irrigation source
Canals
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Dashghara-I panchayat, Dhaniakhali 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
₹23.20 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹51.39 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹46.31 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹28.28 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹5.94 lakh · received ₹21.12 lakh · spent ₹15.48 lakh · left ₹11.58 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹17.26 lakh · received ₹30.27 lakh · spent ₹30.83 lakh · left ₹16.70 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.9550, 88.0539 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Hooghly district ·
School
staffing across Hooghly ·
…and across West Bengal