Purunda
Dantan-Ii block · Medinipur West
district, West Bengal · PIN 721445
· village code 343936
Population 2011
1,654
Census of India
Population 2020
2,028
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+22.6%
374 people · 2.3% a year
Households
367
+7.3% vs 342 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,654
Male / female
865 / 789
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
912
Children aged 0–6
198
Literacy rate
75.3%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
51 / 293
Working population
655
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
80.2%
Households
342
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water nearest 2 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Van
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 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
69
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
0
Non-farm households
0
Net sown area
171 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
171 / 167 / 0
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Turka panchayat, Dantan-Ii 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
₹24.91 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹1.13 crore
Received directly
₹98,796
Spent
₹99.68 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹39.02 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹15.15 lakh · received ₹35.67 lakh · spent ₹34.03 lakh · left ₹17.77 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹9.76 lakh · received ₹77.14 lakh · spent ₹65.65 lakh · left ₹21.25 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
21.8837, 87.3421 —
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