Badishta
Polba-Dadpur block · Hooghly
district, West Bengal · PIN 712305
· village code 325254
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 557 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 2,325 — 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
557
Male / female
291 / 266
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
914
Children aged 0–6
40
Literacy rate
72.5%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
79 / 48
Working population
197
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
45.7%
Households
128
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre
Sub Centre
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
125
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
31
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
15
Non-farm households
80
Share of households farming, 2020
16%
Net sown area
60 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
60 / 38 / 10
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Makalpur 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
₹17.44 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹85.76 lakh
Received directly
₹3.17 lakh
Spent
₹66.69 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹39.68 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹16.80 lakh · received ₹27.11 lakh · spent ₹25.12 lakh · left ₹21.96 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹63,884 · received ₹58.64 lakh · spent ₹41.57 lakh · left ₹17.72 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.8026, 88.3026 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Hooghly district ·
School
staffing across Hooghly ·
…and across West Bengal