Palania
Dantan-I block · Medinipur West
district, West Bengal · PIN 721451
· village code 343722
Population 2011
244
Census of India
Population 2020
290
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+18.9%
46 people · 1.9% a year
Households
90
+66.7% vs 54 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
244
Male / female
125 / 119
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
952
Children aged 0–6
20
Literacy rate
65.2%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
96 / 0
Working population
75
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
93.3%
Households
54
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school nearest 1 km away
No
Middle school nearest 2 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 5 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport nearest 2 km away
No
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
Farming
Farm households
75
Non-farm households
14
Share of households farming, 2020
84%
Net sown area
25 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
25 / 15 / 5
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Tarurui 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
₹21.62 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹76.69 lakh
Received directly
₹37,719
Spent
₹86.51 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹12.17 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹14.96 lakh · received ₹24.25 lakh · spent ₹37.80 lakh · left ₹1.78 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹6.66 lakh · received ₹52.44 lakh · spent ₹48.71 lakh · left ₹10.39 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
21.9820, 87.2434 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Medinipur West district ·
School
staffing across Medinipur West ·
…and across West Bengal