Sonakandi
Contai-Iii block · Medinipur East
district, West Bengal · PIN 721449
· village code 346519
Population 2011
509
Census of India
Population 2020
753
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+47.9%
244 people · 4.4% a year
Households
142
+49.5% vs 95 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
509
Male / female
266 / 243
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
914
Children aged 0–6
47
Literacy rate
83.7%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
236 / 0
Working population
279
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
60.2%
Households
95
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
No
Piped tap water
50 to 100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank
Yes
Primary health centre nearest 2 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
36
Teachers
2
Students per teacher
18
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
No
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
129
Non-farm households
12
Share of households farming, 2020
91%
Net sown area
68 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
68 / 0 / 0
Main irrigation source
Surface water
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Kusumpur panchayat, Contai-Iii 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
₹43.64 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹72.58 lakh
Received directly
₹75,255
Spent
₹76.21 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹40.77 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹18.32 lakh · received ₹29.83 lakh · spent ₹33.07 lakh · left ₹15.82 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹25.32 lakh · received ₹42.75 lakh · spent ₹43.13 lakh · left ₹24.94 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
21.8198, 87.7264 —
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How this village compares
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