Jhetla

Keshpur block · Medinipur West district, West Bengal · PIN 721150 · village code 338583

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 856 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 460 — a drop of more than 40%. One of the two is wrong and we cannot tell which.

Census 2011

Total population

856

Male / female

435 / 421

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

968

Children aged 0–6

122

Literacy rate

70.3%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

123 / 101

Working population

273

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

81.7%

Households

173

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

High school

Yes

Piped tap water

50 to 100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Auto

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank

Yes

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

300

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

Non-farm households

Share of households farming, 2020

80%

Net sown area

75 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

75 / 10 / 5

Main irrigation source

Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Jhentla panchayat, Keshpur 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

₹48.42 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹80.86 lakh

Received directly

₹80,807

Spent

₹1.04 crore

Unspent at year end

₹26.24 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹16.65 lakh · received ₹33.23 lakh · spent ₹45.20 lakh · left ₹5.50 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹31.76 lakh · received ₹47.63 lakh · spent ₹58.64 lakh · left ₹20.75 lakh

Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied together make up the totals above.

Location

22.4685, 87.4881 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

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