Dihichetua
Daspur-I block · Medinipur West
district, West Bengal · PIN 721211
· village code 337831
Population 2011
1,285
Census of India
Population 2020
1,315
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+2.3%
30 people · 0.3% a year
Households
330
+19.1% vs 277 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,285
Male / female
647 / 638
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
986
Children aged 0–6
165
Literacy rate
78.1%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
488 / 17
Working population
448
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
41.1%
Households
277
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 1 km away
No
High school nearest 1 km away
No
Piped tap water
No
All-weather road nearest 1 km away
No
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 2 km away
No
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
78
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
20
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
160
Non-farm households
170
Share of households farming, 2020
48%
Net sown area
12 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
12 / 12 / 7
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Daspur-I 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
₹42.90 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹64.51 lakh
Received directly
₹66,967
Spent
₹82.93 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹25.15 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹13.74 lakh · received ₹26.51 lakh · spent ₹31.36 lakh · left ₹9.56 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹29.16 lakh · received ₹38.00 lakh · spent ₹51.56 lakh · left ₹15.59 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.6386, 87.7197 —
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