Saudkhali Char
Nandigram-I block · Medinipur East
district, West Bengal · PIN 721646
· village code 345852
Population 2011
877
Census of India
Population 2020
1,077
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+22.8%
200 people · 2.3% a year
Households
485
+207.0% vs 158 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
877
Male / female
460 / 417
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
907
Children aged 0–6
139
Literacy rate
70.3%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
478 / 0
Working population
260
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
91.5%
Households
158
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 5 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Van
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 5 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
135
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
45
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
126
Non-farm households
245
Share of households farming, 2020
34%
Net sown area
2 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
2 / 0 / 0
Main irrigation source
Surface water
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Sonachura 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
₹36.31 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹66.00 lakh
Received directly
₹4.04 lakh
Spent
₹66.27 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹40.08 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹13.95 lakh · received ₹27.12 lakh · spent ₹25.19 lakh · left ₹16.44 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹22.36 lakh · received ₹38.88 lakh · spent ₹41.08 lakh · left ₹23.64 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
21.9279, 87.9871 —
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