Charda
Dantan-I block · Medinipur West
district, West Bengal · PIN 721451
· village code 343725
Population 2011
848
Census of India
Population 2020
945
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+11.4%
97 people · 1.2% a year
Households
225
+13.6% vs 198 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
848
Male / female
438 / 410
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
936
Children aged 0–6
84
Literacy rate
72.5%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
67 / 164
Working population
345
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
82.0%
Households
198
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 2 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport nearest 1 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 5 km away
No
Primary health centre
Sub Centre
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
70
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
23
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
195
Non-farm households
30
Share of households farming, 2020
87%
Net sown area
20 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
20 / 19 / 15
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
22.0000, 87.2739 —
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