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 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Purulia district ·
School
staffing across Purulia ·
…and across West Bengal