Kantadarja
Daspur-I block · Medinipur West
district, West Bengal · PIN 721232
· village code 337787
Population 2011
1,500
Census of India
Population 2020
1,851
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+23.4%
351 people · 2.4% a year
Households
320
+8.1% vs 296 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,500
Male / female
767 / 733
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
956
Children aged 0–6
164
Literacy rate
76.9%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
720 / 15
Working population
649
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
73.0%
Households
296
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 5 km away
No
High school
Yes
Piped tap water
<50% habitation covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport nearest 2 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 5 km away
No
Primary health centre
Sub Centre
Anganwadi
Yes
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
136
Teachers
5
Students per teacher
27
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
300
Non-farm households
20
Share of households farming, 2020
94%
Net sown area
200 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
200 / 20 / 5
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Niznarajol panchayat, Daspur-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
₹57.82 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹1.00 crore
Received directly
₹40,168
Spent
₹1.23 crore
Unspent at year end
₹34.84 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹10.47 lakh · received ₹41.18 lakh · spent ₹48.71 lakh · left ₹3.34 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹47.35 lakh · received ₹58.93 lakh · spent ₹74.77 lakh · left ₹31.50 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.5586, 87.6231 —
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