Chousa
Diamond Harbour-I block · 24 Paraganas South
district, West Bengal · PIN 743368
· village code 334386
Population 2011
1,692
Census of India
Population 2020
2,203
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+30.2%
511 people · 3.0% a year
Households
485
+34.4% vs 361 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,692
Male / female
854 / 838
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
981
Children aged 0–6
188
Literacy rate
66.1%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
1,634 / 0
Working population
575
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
69.0%
Households
361
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 5 km away
No
High school
Yes
Piped tap water nearest 5 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Van
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 2 km away
No
Anganwadi nearest 2 km away
No
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
100
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
25
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
291
Non-farm households
194
Share of households farming, 2020
60%
Net sown area
45 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
45 / 30 / 15
Main irrigation source
Canals
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Netra panchayat, Diamond Harbour-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
₹1.54 crore
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹77.71 lakh
Received directly
₹6.23 lakh
Spent
₹1.28 crore
Unspent at year end
₹1.10 crore
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹63.76 lakh · received ₹33.29 lakh · spent ₹54.51 lakh · left ₹48.77 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹90.08 lakh · received ₹44.42 lakh · spent ₹73.63 lakh · left ₹60.87 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.1982, 88.2528 —
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