Kakua
Sankrail block · Jhargram
district, West Bengal · PIN 721135
· village code 341365
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 303 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 912 — 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
303
Male / female
150 / 153
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,020
Children aged 0–6
40
Literacy rate
63.4%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
62 / 0
Working population
193
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
99.0%
Households
70
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 5 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 5 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Van
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 5 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
35
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
12
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
312
Non-farm households
3
Share of households farming, 2020
99%
Net sown area
245 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
245 / 85 / 15
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Sankrail panchayat, Sankrail 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
₹30.88 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹46.16 lakh
Received directly
₹20,269
Spent
₹50.13 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹27.11 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹11.98 lakh · received ₹19.01 lakh · spent ₹21.66 lakh · left ₹9.54 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹18.90 lakh · received ₹27.15 lakh · spent ₹28.47 lakh · left ₹17.57 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.5766, 87.0492 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Jhargram district ·
School
staffing across Jhargram ·
…and across West Bengal