Dakshin Basantapur
Sabang block · Medinipur West
district, West Bengal · PIN 721155
· village code 342808
Population 2011
773
Census of India
Population 2020
897
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+16.0%
124 people · 1.7% a year
Households
172
+3.0% vs 167 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
773
Male / female
389 / 384
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
987
Children aged 0–6
100
Literacy rate
80.2%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
30 / 0
Working population
473
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
45.5%
Households
167
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road nearest 10 km away
No
Public transport nearest 10 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 10 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 10 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
52
Teachers
5
Students per teacher
10
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
Yes
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
150
Non-farm households
22
Share of households farming, 2020
87%
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Bhemua panchayat, Sabang 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
₹36.76 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹66.22 lakh
Received directly
₹57,013
Spent
₹85.06 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹18.49 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹15.28 lakh · received ₹27.21 lakh · spent ₹40.64 lakh · left ₹2.42 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹21.48 lakh · received ₹39.00 lakh · spent ₹44.42 lakh · left ₹16.07 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.2162, 87.6802 —
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