Menakapur
Dantan-I block · Medinipur West
district, West Bengal · PIN 721435
· village code 343816
Population 2011
3,244
Census of India
Population 2020
3,250
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+0.2%
6 people · 0.0% a year
Households
647
0.0% vs 647 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
3,244
Male / female
1,685 / 1,559
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
925
Children aged 0–6
398
Literacy rate
70.4%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
238 / 91
Working population
1,110
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
64.0%
Households
647
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water
100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Van
Electricity
8-12 Hrs
Bank
Yes
Primary health centre
Sub Centre
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
Yes
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
2,010
Teachers
17
Students per teacher
118
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
20
Non-farm households
550
Share of households farming, 2020
4%
Net sown area
80 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
80 / 70 / 0
Main irrigation source
Canals
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Salikotha 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
₹58.31 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹86.26 lakh
Received directly
₹2.83 lakh
Spent
₹97.52 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹49.88 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹17.85 lakh · received ₹35.45 lakh · spent ₹40.86 lakh · left ₹15.27 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹40.46 lakh · received ₹50.81 lakh · spent ₹56.66 lakh · left ₹34.62 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
21.9459, 87.3378 —
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