Banshra
Purulia-I block · Purulia
district, West Bengal · PIN 723102
· village code 331023
Population 2011
1,457
Census of India
Population 2020
1,630
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+11.9%
173 people · 1.3% a year
Households
325
+26.5% vs 257 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,457
Male / female
741 / 716
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
966
Children aged 0–6
214
Literacy rate
67.7%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
192 / 127
Working population
542
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
59.6%
Households
257
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
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre
No
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
153
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
51
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
262
Non-farm households
23
Share of households farming, 2020
92%
Net sown area
70 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
70 / 15 / 10
Main irrigation source
Surface water
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Manara panchayat, Purulia-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
₹46.73 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹54.61 lakh
Received directly
₹78,522
Spent
₹57.47 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹44.65 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹6.32 lakh · received ₹22.44 lakh · spent ₹13.43 lakh · left ₹16.12 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹40.41 lakh · received ₹32.16 lakh · spent ₹44.04 lakh · left ₹28.53 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
23.2804, 86.7285 —
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