Saraiya
Panki block · Palamu
district, Jharkhand · PIN 822122
· village code 366246
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 357 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 1,500 — more than 2.5 times higher, which no village grows in nine years. One of the two is wrong and we cannot
tell which.
Census 2011
Total population
357
Male / female
180 / 177
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
983
Children aged 0–6
51
Literacy rate
61.3%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
67 / 0
Working population
203
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
79.8%
Households
80
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 10 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 1 km away
No
All-weather road nearest 5 km away
No
Public transport nearest 10 km away
No
Electricity
—
Bank nearest 10 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 5 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
450
Teachers
30
Students per teacher
15
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
None
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
No
Mid-day meal
No
Farming
Farm households
600
Non-farm households
70
Share of households farming, 2020
90%
Net sown area
2 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
2 / 2 / 2
Main irrigation source
Canals
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Sundi panchayat, Panki 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
₹14.38 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹10.23 lakh
Received directly
₹55,195
Spent
₹24.03 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹1.14 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹8.20 lakh · received ₹4.09 lakh · spent ₹12.29 lakh · left ₹55,226
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹6.18 lakh · received ₹6.14 lakh · spent ₹11.74 lakh · left ₹58,563
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
24.0721, 84.4034 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Palamu district ·
School
staffing across Palamu ·
…and across Jharkhand