Betnala
Gopiballavpur-I block · Jhargram
district, West Bengal · PIN 721506
· village code 340703
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 368 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 1,000 — more than 2.5 times higher, which no village grows in nine years. One of the two is wrong and we cannot
tell which.
Census 2011
Total population
368
Male / female
195 / 173
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
887
Children aged 0–6
42
Literacy rate
54.9%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
6 / 257
Working population
224
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
96.9%
Households
74
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 5 km away
No
High school nearest 10 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road nearest 10 km away
No
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 10 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 2 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
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
35
Teachers
2
Students per teacher
18
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
0
Non-farm households
0
Net sown area
40 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
40 / 30 / 10
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Saria panchayat, Gopiballavpur-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
₹36.30 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹1.13 crore
Received directly
₹64,634
Spent
₹1.07 crore
Unspent at year end
₹43.32 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹28.32 lakh · received ₹35.84 lakh · spent ₹46.80 lakh · left ₹18.00 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹7.98 lakh · received ₹77.41 lakh · spent ₹60.07 lakh · left ₹25.31 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.1876, 86.8654 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Jhargram district ·
School
staffing across Jhargram ·
…and across West Bengal