Banbahira
Raghunath Pur-I block · Purulia
district, West Bengal · PIN 723121
· village code 330336
Population 2011
1,258
Census of India
Population 2020
1,683
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+33.8%
425 people · 3.3% a year
Households
295
+27.7% vs 231 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,258
Male / female
688 / 570
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
828
Children aged 0–6
163
Literacy rate
58.3%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
461 / 237
Working population
495
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
53.3%
Households
231
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 1 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 1 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport nearest 2 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 1 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
46
Teachers
2
Students per teacher
23
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
177
Non-farm households
118
Share of households farming, 2020
60%
Net sown area
23 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
23 / 11 / 0
Main irrigation source
Surface water
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Khajura panchayat, Raghunath Pur-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
₹67.67 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹55.06 lakh
Received directly
₹3.20 lakh
Spent
₹79.24 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹46.69 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹25.46 lakh · received ₹22.63 lakh · spent ₹33.57 lakh · left ₹17.71 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹42.21 lakh · received ₹32.43 lakh · spent ₹45.66 lakh · left ₹28.98 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
23.6757, 86.8013 —
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