Mahapal
Gopiballav Pur -Ii block · Jhargram
district, West Bengal · PIN 721517
· village code 340493
Population 2011
1,867
Census of India
Population 2020
2,095
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+12.2%
228 people · 1.3% a year
Households
363
+2.8% vs 353 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,867
Male / female
943 / 924
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
980
Children aged 0–6
220
Literacy rate
70.0%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
1,212 / 52
Working population
681
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
61.5%
Households
353
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water nearest 1 km away
No
All-weather road nearest 1 km away
No
Public transport nearest 1 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 1 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
125
Teachers
6
Students per teacher
21
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
300
Non-farm households
48
Share of households farming, 2020
86%
Net sown area
31 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
31 / 26 / 28
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Petbindhi panchayat, Gopiballav Pur -Ii 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
₹58.20 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹77.72 lakh
Received directly
₹96,793
Spent
₹90.30 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹46.59 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹9.26 lakh · received ₹31.98 lakh · spent ₹26.18 lakh · left ₹16.03 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹48.94 lakh · received ₹45.74 lakh · spent ₹64.11 lakh · left ₹30.57 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.4685, 86.9811 —
view on OpenStreetMap
Nearby villages
Magura
compare · Mahabila
compare · Mahadan
compare · Mahala Guri
compare · Mahatabandh
compare · Mahipal
compare · Mahisamura
compare · Mahishabhaga
compare
How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Jhargram district ·
School
staffing across Jhargram ·
…and across West Bengal