Balia Geria
Nayagram block · Jhargram
district, West Bengal · PIN 721125
· village code 341142
Population 2011
473
Census of India
Population 2020
530
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+12.1%
57 people · 1.3% a year
Households
115
+17.4% vs 98 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
473
Male / female
239 / 234
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
979
Children aged 0–6
57
Literacy rate
50.3%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
49 / 423
Working population
164
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
62.8%
Households
98
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 2 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water
<50% habitation covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 5 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 10 km away
No
Anganwadi nearest 2 km away
No
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
40
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
13
Electricity
No
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
1
Non-farm households
1
Share of households farming, 2020
50%
Net sown area
2 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
2 / 2 / 2
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Ara panchayat, Nayagram 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
₹54.17 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹56.67 lakh
Received directly
₹90,642
Spent
₹67.42 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹44.33 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹16.19 lakh · received ₹23.29 lakh · spent ₹26.70 lakh · left ₹13.68 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹37.98 lakh · received ₹33.38 lakh · spent ₹40.72 lakh · left ₹30.65 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
21.9099, 87.0632 —
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