Alikasha
Dantan-I block · Medinipur West
district, West Bengal · PIN 721451
· village code 343706
Population 2011
873
Census of India
Population 2020
870
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
-0.3%
-3 people · -0.0% a year
Households
209
+1.9% vs 205 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
873
Male / female
439 / 434
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
989
Children aged 0–6
75
Literacy rate
79.2%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
37 / 0
Working population
298
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
93.0%
Households
205
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 10 km away
No
High school nearest 1 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 10 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
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
60
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
20
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
195
Non-farm households
14
Share of households farming, 2020
93%
Net sown area
72 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
71 / 72 / 50
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Alikosha panchayat, Dantan-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
₹70.21 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹71.21 lakh
Received directly
₹53,317
Spent
₹1.08 crore
Unspent at year end
₹33.77 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹32.56 lakh · received ₹29.26 lakh · spent ₹46.29 lakh · left ₹16.07 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹37.65 lakh · received ₹41.94 lakh · spent ₹61.89 lakh · left ₹17.70 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.0541, 87.2489 —
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