Banskuni
Dantan-I block · Medinipur West
district, West Bengal · PIN 721426
· village code 343792
Population 2011
1,014
Census of India
Population 2020
1,360
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+34.1%
346 people · 3.3% a year
Households
296
+38.3% vs 214 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,014
Male / female
497 / 517
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,040
Children aged 0–6
165
Literacy rate
54.0%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
598 / 103
Working population
438
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
13.0%
Households
214
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water nearest 5 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
8-12 Hrs
Bank
Yes
Primary health centre nearest 2 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
Yes
Common service centre
Colocated with Panchayat Bhawan
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
120
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
40
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
150
Non-farm households
16
Share of households farming, 2020
90%
Net sown area
3 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
3 / 2 / 0
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Angua 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
₹61.06 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹72.99 lakh
Received directly
₹13,388
Spent
₹1.01 crore
Unspent at year end
₹33.04 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹22.56 lakh · received ₹30.00 lakh · spent ₹40.33 lakh · left ₹12.35 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹38.50 lakh · received ₹42.99 lakh · spent ₹60.80 lakh · left ₹20.69 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
21.9279, 87.2685 —
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