Banspahari

Binpur-Ii block · Jhargram district, West Bengal · PIN 721501 · village code 335417

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 1,402 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 368 — a drop of more than 40%. One of the two is wrong and we cannot tell which.

Census 2011

Total population

1,402

Male / female

694 / 708

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

1,020

Children aged 0–6

164

Literacy rate

60.2%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

266 / 574

Working population

550

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

48.2%

Households

332

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school nearest 10 km away

High school nearest 1 km away

Piped tap water

<50% habitation covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport nearest 1 km away

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank nearest 5 km away

Primary health centre nearest 2 km away

Anganwadi

Yes

Internet

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

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

Non-farm households

Share of households farming, 2020

46%

Net sown area

82 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

82 / 10 / 0

Main irrigation source

Other

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Shimulpal panchayat, Binpur-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

₹52.62 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹66.90 lakh

Received directly

₹34,592

Spent

₹75.66 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹44.21 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹14.46 lakh · received ₹27.49 lakh · spent ₹19.62 lakh · left ₹22.68 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹38.17 lakh · received ₹39.41 lakh · spent ₹56.05 lakh · left ₹21.53 lakh

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

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