Ghorapota

Garbeta-I block · Medinipur West district, West Bengal · PIN 721127 · village code 336930

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 725 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 2,012 — 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

725

Male / female

355 / 370

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

1,042

Children aged 0–6

Literacy rate

84.8%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

275 / 6

Working population

269

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

46.5%

Households

153

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school nearest 1 km away

Middle school

Yes

High school nearest 2 km away

Piped tap water

50 to 100% habitations covered

All-weather road nearest 2 km away

Public transport

Auto

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank nearest 5 km away

Primary health centre

Sub Centre

Anganwadi

Internet

Yes

Common service centre

No CSC

Farming

Farm households

Non-farm households

130

Share of households farming, 2020

14%

Net sown area

3 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

3 / 1 / 1

Main irrigation source

Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Garhbeta panchayat, Garbeta-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

₹33.13 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹53.82 lakh

Received directly

₹57,368

Spent

₹63.07 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹24.46 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹10.72 lakh · received ₹22.12 lakh · spent ₹24.99 lakh · left ₹8.21 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹22.41 lakh · received ₹31.70 lakh · spent ₹38.09 lakh · left ₹16.25 lakh

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

Location

22.7387, 87.3279 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

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