Simulia
Bhagawanpur-I block · Medinipur East
district, West Bengal · PIN 721458
· village code 345494
Population 2011
4,733
Census of India
Population 2020
5,072
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+7.2%
339 people · 0.8% a year
Households
1,260
+4.9% vs 1,201 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
4,733
Male / female
2,422 / 2,311
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
954
Children aged 0–6
489
Literacy rate
77.7%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
236 / 10
Working population
1,652
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
69.4%
Households
1,201
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water
50 to 100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank
No
Primary health centre
CHC
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
Yes
Common service centre
Colocated with Panchayat Bhawan
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
512
Teachers
17
Students per teacher
30
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
1,005
Non-farm households
0
Share of households farming, 2020
100%
Net sown area
190 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
190 / 186 / 106
Main irrigation source
Surface water
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Simulia panchayat, Bhagawanpur-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
₹48.02 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹78.35 lakh
Received directly
₹58,525
Spent
₹88.59 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹38.36 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹17.65 lakh · received ₹32.20 lakh · spent ₹33.00 lakh · left ₹17.43 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹30.37 lakh · received ₹46.15 lakh · spent ₹55.59 lakh · left ₹20.93 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
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