Pilkhan
Khanakul-I block · Hooghly
district, West Bengal · PIN 712613
· village code 325817
Population 2011
4,176
Census of India
Population 2020
4,703
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+12.6%
527 people · 1.3% a year
Households
1,076
+12.4% vs 957 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
4,176
Male / female
2,149 / 2,027
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
943
Children aged 0–6
481
Literacy rate
69.2%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
1,400 / 0
Working population
1,395
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
66.0%
Households
957
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 2 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
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
453
Teachers
13
Students per teacher
35
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
673
Non-farm households
403
Share of households farming, 2020
63%
Net sown area
270 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
270 / 145 / 0
Main irrigation source
Surface water
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Ghoshpur panchayat, Khanakul-I 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
₹55.94 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹89.26 lakh
Received directly
₹1.13 lakh
Spent
₹98.19 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹48.14 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹13.03 lakh · received ₹36.68 lakh · spent ₹32.50 lakh · left ₹18.34 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹42.91 lakh · received ₹52.58 lakh · spent ₹65.69 lakh · left ₹29.80 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.7230, 87.7882 —
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