Banshi Chak
Dantan-Ii block · Medinipur West
district, West Bengal · PIN 721443
· village code 343989
Population 2011
1,639
Census of India
Population 2020
1,755
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+7.1%
116 people · 0.8% a year
Households
383
+12.3% vs 341 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,639
Male / female
817 / 822
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,006
Children aged 0–6
171
Literacy rate
77.8%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
149 / 184
Working population
544
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
81.1%
Households
341
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 2 km away
No
High school nearest 1 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 2 km away
No
All-weather road
No
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
8-12 Hrs
Bank nearest 1 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 1 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
75
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
19
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
355
Non-farm households
28
Share of households farming, 2020
93%
Net sown area
55 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
55 / 50 / 2
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Porolda 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
₹49.20 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹75.54 lakh
Received directly
₹2.76 lakh
Spent
₹87.79 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹39.71 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹26.27 lakh · received ₹31.04 lakh · spent ₹41.23 lakh · left ₹18.84 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹22.93 lakh · received ₹44.50 lakh · spent ₹46.56 lakh · left ₹20.87 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
21.9459, 87.4932 —
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