Benepukur
Balagarh block · Hooghly
district, West Bengal · PIN 712123
· village code 324961
Population 2011
412
Census of India
Population 2020
476
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+15.5%
64 people · 1.6% a year
Households
97
+16.9% vs 83 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
412
Male / female
218 / 194
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
890
Children aged 0–6
23
Literacy rate
85.4%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
95 / 1
Working population
150
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
90.0%
Households
83
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 2 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 1 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Van
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
30
Teachers
1
Students per teacher
30
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
84
Non-farm households
13
Share of households farming, 2020
87%
Net sown area
44 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
44 / 35 / 0
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Ektarpur 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
₹36.26 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹87.70 lakh
Received directly
₹1.05 lakh
Spent
₹73.49 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹51.53 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹18.83 lakh · received ₹27.73 lakh · spent ₹32.77 lakh · left ₹14.84 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹17.43 lakh · received ₹59.97 lakh · spent ₹40.72 lakh · left ₹36.68 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
23.1817, 88.3926 —
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