Kanikha
Kharagpur-Ii block · Medinipur West
district, West Bengal · PIN 721149
· village code 341876
Population 2011
211
Census of India
Population 2020
229
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+8.5%
18 people · 0.9% a year
Households
51
+6.3% vs 48 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
211
Male / female
110 / 101
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
918
Children aged 0–6
10
Literacy rate
90.5%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
0 / 0
Working population
78
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
79.5%
Households
48
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 2 km away
No
High school
Yes
Piped tap water
50 to 100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 2 km away
No
Anganwadi nearest 10 km away
No
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
25
Teachers
2
Students per teacher
13
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
Yes
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
32
Non-farm households
19
Share of households farming, 2020
63%
Net sown area
22 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
22 / 18 / 1
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Kaliara-I panchayat, Kharagpur-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
₹34.44 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹56.69 lakh
Received directly
₹51,224
Spent
₹66.72 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹24.93 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹13.67 lakh · received ₹23.30 lakh · spent ₹28.09 lakh · left ₹9.39 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹20.77 lakh · received ₹33.39 lakh · spent ₹38.63 lakh · left ₹15.54 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.3784, 87.4313 —
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