Bahir Khanda

Haripal block · Hooghly district, West Bengal · PIN 712405 · village code 325319

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 3,861 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 1,135 — a drop of more than 40%. One of the two is wrong and we cannot tell which.

Census 2011

Total population

3,861

Male / female

1,957 / 1,904

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

973

Children aged 0–6

388

Literacy rate

71.8%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

1,134 / 214

Working population

1,796

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

49.8%

Households

909

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school nearest 2 km away

High school

Yes

Piped tap water

50 to 100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Auto

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank

Yes

Primary health centre

Sub Centre

Anganwadi

Yes

Internet

Yes

Common service centre

Separately located

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

130

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

177

Non-farm households

100

Share of households farming, 2020

64%

Net sown area

200 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

200 / 200 / 115

Main irrigation source

Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Narayanpurbahirkhanda panchayat, Haripal 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

₹46.66 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹62.89 lakh

Received directly

₹40,048

Spent

₹72.69 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹37.26 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹17.97 lakh · received ₹25.84 lakh · spent ₹32.23 lakh · left ₹11.99 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹28.69 lakh · received ₹37.04 lakh · spent ₹40.46 lakh · left ₹25.27 lakh

Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied together make up the totals above.

Location

22.8649, 88.0736 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

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