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Purushottampur

Nandigram-I block · Medinipur East district, West Bengal · PIN 721631 · village code 345784

Population 2011
1,979
Census of India
Population 2020
2,122
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+7.2%
143 people · 0.8% a year
Households
469
+7.6% vs 436 in 2011

Census 2011

Total population
1,979
Male / female
1,030 / 949
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
921
Children aged 0–6
236
Literacy rate
75.3%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
181 / 56
Working population
589
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
30.1%
Households
436

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water
<50% habitation covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>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
116
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
29
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes

Farming

Farm households
315
Non-farm households
26
Share of households farming, 2020
92%
Net sown area
157 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
157 / 70 / 0
Main irrigation source
Surface water

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Mahammadpur panchayat, Nandigram-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
₹41.38 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹63.59 lakh
Received directly
₹51,308
Spent
₹73.12 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹32.37 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹15.54 lakh · received ₹26.13 lakh · spent ₹28.85 lakh · left ₹13.33 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹25.85 lakh · received ₹37.46 lakh · spent ₹44.26 lakh · left ₹19.04 lakh

Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied together make up the totals above.

Location

22.0337, 87.9680 — view on OpenStreetMap

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