Uttar Santoshpur

Jagatballavpur block · Howrah district, West Bengal · PIN 711404 · village code 332746

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 1,151 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 4,074 — 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

1,151

Male / female

578 / 573

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

991

Children aged 0–6

157

Literacy rate

50.4%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

1,012 / 0

Working population

533

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

62.9%

Households

252

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school nearest 2 km away

High school nearest 2 km away

Piped tap water nearest 10 km away

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Van

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank nearest 5 km away

Primary health centre nearest 1 km away

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

275

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

683

Non-farm households

183

Share of households farming, 2020

79%

Net sown area

215 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

215 / 176 / 0

Main irrigation source

Canals

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Baragachhia-I panchayat, Jagatballavpur 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

₹26.92 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹41.85 lakh

Received directly

₹38,011

Spent

₹39.84 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹29.30 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹10.41 lakh · received ₹17.20 lakh · spent ₹18.34 lakh · left ₹9.65 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹16.51 lakh · received ₹24.65 lakh · spent ₹21.51 lakh · left ₹19.65 lakh

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

Location

22.6750, 88.1401 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

Biggest population changes in Howrah district · School staffing across Howrah · …and across West Bengal