Dighanswar
Polba-Dadpur block · Hooghly
district, West Bengal · PIN 712305
· village code 325219
Population 2011
1,380
Census of India
Population 2020
1,500
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+8.7%
120 people · 0.9% a year
Households
437
+37.0% vs 319 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,380
Male / female
709 / 671
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
946
Children aged 0–6
91
Literacy rate
70.1%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
646 / 199
Working population
619
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
91.3%
Households
319
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 2 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 2 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
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
110
Teachers
6
Students per teacher
18
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
350
Non-farm households
87
Share of households farming, 2020
80%
Net sown area
53 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
53 / 5 / 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
22.9910, 88.1557 —
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