Bakkeshwar
Polba-Dadpur block · Hooghly
district, West Bengal · PIN 712149
· village code 325203
Population 2011
1,083
Census of India
Population 2020
1,956
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+80.6%
873 people · 6.8% a year
Households
347
+29.5% vs 268 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,083
Male / female
539 / 544
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,009
Children aged 0–6
111
Literacy rate
65.9%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
159 / 468
Working population
518
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
90.7%
Households
268
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
No
High school
No
Piped tap water
<50% habitation covered
All-weather road
No
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 2 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
210
Teachers
9
Students per teacher
23
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
201
Non-farm households
146
Share of households farming, 2020
58%
Net sown area
30 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
30 / 12 / 0
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Satithan panchayat, Polba-Dadpur 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
₹77.53 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹76.42 lakh
Received directly
₹1.57 lakh
Spent
₹96.22 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹59.29 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹14.99 lakh · received ₹31.40 lakh · spent ₹31.82 lakh · left ₹16.14 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹62.54 lakh · received ₹45.01 lakh · spent ₹64.40 lakh · left ₹43.15 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.9730, 88.1831 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Hooghly district ·
School
staffing across Hooghly ·
…and across West Bengal