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Damda

Manbazar-I block · Purulia district, West Bengal · PIN 723128 · village code 332156

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 192 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 2,710 — more than 2.5 times higher, which no village grows in nine years. One of the two is wrong and we cannot tell which.

Census 2011

Total population
192
Male / female
95 / 97
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,021
Children aged 0–6
30
Literacy rate
36.5%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
131 / 0
Working population
66
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
97.0%
Households
43

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 5 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 nearest 5 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
Yes
Common service centre
Separately located

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
251
Teachers
5
Students per teacher
50
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes

Farming

Farm households
515
Non-farm households
10
Share of households farming, 2020
98%
Net sown area
220 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
220 / 90 / 82
Main irrigation source
Other

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Kamtajangidiri panchayat, Manbazar-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
₹60.84 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹62.79 lakh
Received directly
₹2.20 lakh
Spent
₹79.81 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹46.02 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹15.94 lakh · received ₹25.80 lakh · spent ₹26.90 lakh · left ₹17.04 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹44.90 lakh · received ₹36.99 lakh · spent ₹52.91 lakh · left ₹28.98 lakh

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

Location

23.1351, 86.4867 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

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