Gaurda
Dantan-Ii block · Medinipur West
district, West Bengal · PIN 721457
· village code 343942
Population 2011
990
Census of India
Population 2020
1,107
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+11.8%
117 people · 1.2% a year
Households
242
+9.0% vs 222 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
990
Male / female
500 / 490
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
980
Children aged 0–6
105
Literacy rate
82.9%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
23 / 24
Working population
321
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
91.0%
Households
222
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
8-12 Hrs
Bank nearest 2 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
75
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
19
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
205
Non-farm households
33
Share of households farming, 2020
86%
Net sown area
100 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
89 / 100 / 16
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Jenkapur 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
₹40.44 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹68.54 lakh
Received directly
₹37,509
Spent
₹83.06 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹26.30 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹18.69 lakh · received ₹28.17 lakh · spent ₹34.69 lakh · left ₹12.54 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹21.75 lakh · received ₹40.37 lakh · spent ₹48.37 lakh · left ₹13.76 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
21.8919, 87.3823 —
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