Garga
Balarampur block · Purulia
district, West Bengal · PIN 723143
· village code 331675
Population 2011
1,958
Census of India
Population 2020
2,436
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+24.4%
478 people · 2.5% a year
Households
400
+10.5% vs 362 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,958
Male / female
983 / 975
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
992
Children aged 0–6
311
Literacy rate
51.1%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
97 / 1,431
Working population
917
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
80.5%
Households
362
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
Van
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
205
Teachers
8
Students per teacher
26
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
276
Non-farm households
86
Share of households farming, 2020
76%
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Genrua panchayat, Balarampur 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
₹42.86 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹80.97 lakh
Received directly
₹45,157
Spent
₹81.80 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹42.49 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹9.19 lakh · received ₹33.32 lakh · spent ₹25.52 lakh · left ₹17.39 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹33.67 lakh · received ₹47.66 lakh · spent ₹56.28 lakh · left ₹25.10 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
23.1325, 85.8535 —
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How this village compares
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staffing across Purulia ·
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