Bahirchara
Budge Budge-Ii block · 24 Paraganas South
district, West Bengal · PIN 743318
· village code 333338
Population 2011
723
Census of India
Population 2020
854
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+18.1%
131 people · 1.9% a year
Households
203
+17.3% vs 173 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
723
Male / female
382 / 341
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
893
Children aged 0–6
64
Literacy rate
79.9%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
134 / 0
Working population
282
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
2.5%
Households
173
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 2 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water
<50% habitation covered
All-weather road nearest 1 km away
No
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 1 km away
No
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
60
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
20
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
162
Non-farm households
31
Share of households farming, 2020
84%
Net sown area
9 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
9 / 8 / 1
Main irrigation source
Canals
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Satgachhia panchayat, Budge Budge-Ii 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
₹47.05 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹50.88 lakh
Received directly
₹8.56 lakh
Spent
₹67.65 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹38.85 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹12.84 lakh · received ₹20.91 lakh · spent ₹16.10 lakh · left ₹21.21 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹34.21 lakh · received ₹29.97 lakh · spent ₹51.54 lakh · left ₹17.64 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.3964, 88.1637 —
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