Purushotampur
Egra-I block · Medinipur East
district, West Bengal · PIN 721436
· village code 346644
Population 2011
583
Census of India
Population 2020
594
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+1.9%
11 people · 0.2% a year
Households
173
+22.7% vs 141 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
583
Male / female
280 / 303
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,082
Children aged 0–6
54
Literacy rate
79.8%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
24 / 21
Working population
207
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
80.2%
Households
141
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water
only one habitation is covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Van
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
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
63
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
21
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
147
Non-farm households
26
Share of households farming, 2020
85%
Net sown area
79 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
79 / 69 / 2
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Sahara panchayat, Egra-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
₹54.24 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹66.78 lakh
Received directly
₹71,270
Spent
₹83.24 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹38.49 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹18.21 lakh · received ₹27.44 lakh · spent ₹33.08 lakh · left ₹13.28 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹36.03 lakh · received ₹39.34 lakh · spent ₹50.16 lakh · left ₹25.21 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
21.7741, 87.4718 —
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