Paikpara
Chandrakona-I block · Medinipur West
district, West Bengal · PIN 721201
· village code 337490
Population 2011
888
Census of India
Population 2020
1,093
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+23.1%
205 people · 2.3% a year
Households
212
+19.1% vs 178 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
888
Male / female
445 / 443
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
996
Children aged 0–6
116
Literacy rate
54.2%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
834 / 13
Working population
350
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
93.4%
Households
178
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 2 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water
50 to 100% habitations covered
All-weather road nearest 5 km away
No
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 10 km away
No
Primary health centre
Sub Centre
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
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
102
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
26
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
199
Non-farm households
13
Share of households farming, 2020
94%
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Monoharpur-I panchayat, Chandrakona-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
₹17.80 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹36.47 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹43.18 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹11.08 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹4.86 lakh · received ₹15.03 lakh · spent ₹15.51 lakh · left ₹4.38 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹12.94 lakh · received ₹21.44 lakh · spent ₹27.67 lakh · left ₹6.71 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.6667, 87.5944 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Medinipur West district ·
School
staffing across Medinipur West ·
…and across West Bengal