Khar Kusum
Garbeta-I block · Medinipur West
district, West Bengal · PIN 721127
· village code 337020
Population 2011
5,428
Census of India
Population 2020
5,795
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+6.8%
367 people · 0.7% a year
Households
1,024
+5.2% vs 973 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
5,428
Male / female
2,819 / 2,609
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
926
Children aged 0–6
808
Literacy rate
55.7%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
333 / 0
Working population
2,149
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
58.7%
Households
973
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 10 km away
No
High school
Yes
Piped tap water
<50% habitation covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank
Yes
Primary health centre
Sub Centre
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
Yes
Common service centre
Colocated with Panchayat Bhawan
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
342
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
86
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
0
Non-farm households
0
Net sown area
30 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
20 / 30 / 5
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Kharkusma 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
₹37.86 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹69.69 lakh
Received directly
₹2.04 lakh
Spent
₹92.91 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹16.67 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹11.37 lakh · received ₹28.64 lakh · spent ₹30.05 lakh · left ₹11.75 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹26.49 lakh · received ₹41.05 lakh · spent ₹62.86 lakh · left ₹4.92 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.8649, 87.4283 —
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