Digra
Balagarh block · Hooghly
district, West Bengal · PIN 712512
· village code 324921
Population 2011
711
Census of India
Population 2020
820
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+15.3%
109 people · 1.6% a year
Households
312
+73.3% vs 180 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
711
Male / female
350 / 361
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,031
Children aged 0–6
62
Literacy rate
58.4%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
522 / 6
Working population
300
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
86.7%
Households
180
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 1 km away
No
High school nearest 1 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 1 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 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
120
Teachers
5
Students per teacher
24
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
270
Non-farm households
42
Share of households farming, 2020
87%
Net sown area
75 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
60 / 75 / 19
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Somra-I panchayat, Balagarh 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
₹27.60 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹43.05 lakh
Received directly
₹47,463
Spent
₹46.29 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹24.83 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹13.62 lakh · received ₹17.73 lakh · spent ₹22.32 lakh · left ₹9.51 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹13.98 lakh · received ₹25.32 lakh · spent ₹23.98 lakh · left ₹15.33 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
23.1171, 88.4538 —
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