Purushottampur
Daspur-I block · Medinipur West
district, West Bengal · PIN 721211
· village code 337842
Population 2011
1,471
Census of India
Population 2020
1,570
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+6.7%
99 people · 0.7% a year
Households
310
+5.1% vs 295 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,471
Male / female
752 / 719
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
956
Children aged 0–6
163
Literacy rate
83.3%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
360 / 1
Working population
536
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
43.8%
Households
295
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
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 1 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
96
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
32
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
255
Non-farm households
55
Share of households farming, 2020
82%
Net sown area
40 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
40 / 30 / 6
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Daspur-Ii 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
₹55.33 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹66.80 lakh
Received directly
₹10,655
Spent
₹1.01 crore
Unspent at year end
₹21.55 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹18.78 lakh · received ₹27.45 lakh · spent ₹34.23 lakh · left ₹12.11 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹36.55 lakh · received ₹39.35 lakh · spent ₹66.47 lakh · left ₹9.43 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
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