Sankarara
Gangajal Ghati block · Bankura
district, West Bengal · PIN 722203
· village code 326308
Population 2011
465
Census of India
Population 2020
517
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+11.2%
52 people · 1.2% a year
Households
113
+24.2% vs 91 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
465
Male / female
225 / 240
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,067
Children aged 0–6
42
Literacy rate
69.5%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
96 / 6
Working population
154
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
59.7%
Households
91
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road nearest 5 km away
No
Public transport nearest 10 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 10 km away
No
Primary health centre
Sub Centre
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
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
65
Teachers
5
Students per teacher
13
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
45
Non-farm households
46
Share of households farming, 2020
49%
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Kapista panchayat, Gangajal Ghati 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
₹43.09 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹60.81 lakh
Received directly
₹40,499
Spent
₹71.11 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹33.20 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹24.76 lakh · received ₹24.99 lakh · spent ₹33.61 lakh · left ₹16.54 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹18.33 lakh · received ₹35.82 lakh · spent ₹37.49 lakh · left ₹16.66 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
23.3874, 87.1610 —
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