Painja

Kashipur block · Purulia district, West Bengal · PIN 723121 · village code 330736

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 830 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 470 — a drop of more than 40%. One of the two is wrong and we cannot tell which.

Census 2011

Total population

830

Male / female

429 / 401

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

935

Children aged 0–6

107

Literacy rate

50.7%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

412 / 397

Working population

459

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

95.9%

Households

170

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school nearest 2 km away

High school nearest 2 km away

Piped tap water

50 to 100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Bus

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank nearest 1 km away

Primary health 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

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

101

Non-farm households

Share of households farming, 2020

80%

Net sown area

30 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

30 / 18 / 18

Main irrigation source

Surface water

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Rangamati-Ranjandih panchayat, Kashipur 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

₹37.97 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹50.46 lakh

Received directly

₹60,772

Spent

₹54.46 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹34.59 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹11.31 lakh · received ₹20.74 lakh · spent ₹18.88 lakh · left ₹13.77 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹26.66 lakh · received ₹29.73 lakh · spent ₹35.58 lakh · left ₹20.81 lakh

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

Location

23.3846, 86.7511 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

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