Uttar Mechgram
Panskura-I block · Medinipur East
district, West Bengal · PIN 721139
· village code 344178
Population 2011
3,072
Census of India
Population 2020
3,125
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+1.7%
53 people · 0.2% a year
Households
750
+7.6% vs 697 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
3,072
Male / female
1,571 / 1,501
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
955
Children aged 0–6
283
Literacy rate
75.2%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
548 / 412
Working population
1,264
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
33.8%
Households
697
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water
50 to 100% habitations covered
All-weather road nearest 5 km away
No
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>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
125
Teachers
6
Students per teacher
21
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
405
Non-farm households
345
Share of households farming, 2020
54%
Net sown area
3,500 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
3,500 / 3,500 / 3,000
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Panskura-I panchayat, Panskura-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
₹9.14 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹71.47 lakh
Received directly
₹64,790
Spent
₹57.80 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹23.46 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹3.06 lakh · received ₹29.01 lakh · spent ₹21.81 lakh · left ₹10.91 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹6.08 lakh · received ₹42.46 lakh · spent ₹35.99 lakh · left ₹12.55 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.3964, 87.7155 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Medinipur East district ·
School
staffing across Medinipur East ·
…and across West Bengal