Maheshdas Bar Baibartta Chak
Contai-Iii block · Medinipur East
district, West Bengal · PIN 721444
· village code 346579
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 645 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 340 — a drop of more than 40%. One of the two is wrong and we cannot
tell which.
Census 2011
Total population
645
Male / female
333 / 312
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
937
Children aged 0–6
70
Literacy rate
87.0%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
33 / 0
Working population
212
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
75.9%
Households
140
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 1 km away
No
High school nearest 1 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road nearest 5 km away
No
Public transport
Van
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
35
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
12
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
80
Non-farm households
20
Share of households farming, 2020
80%
Net sown area
22 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
22 / 14 / 20
Main irrigation source
Surface water
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Kanaidighi 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
₹45.99 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹80.67 lakh
Received directly
₹52,819
Spent
₹89.28 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹37.91 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹19.50 lakh · received ₹33.15 lakh · spent ₹36.52 lakh · left ₹16.67 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹26.49 lakh · received ₹47.52 lakh · spent ₹52.76 lakh · left ₹21.24 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
21.8919, 87.7512 —
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