Amba
Masaliya block · Dumka
district, Jharkhand · PIN 814146
· village code 371952
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 77 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 543 — 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
77
Male / female
33 / 44
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,333
Children aged 0–6
12
Literacy rate
64.9%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
0 / 0
Working population
44
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
68.2%
Households
15
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 1 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
8-12 Hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 10 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
Common service centre
Colocated with Panchayat Bhawan
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
39
Teachers
10
Students per teacher
4
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
130
Non-farm households
7
Share of households farming, 2020
95%
Net sown area
52 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
52 / 0 / 0
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Gumro panchayat, Masaliya 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
₹21.19 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹10.25 lakh
Received directly
₹52,015
Spent
₹10.53 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹21.43 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹11.97 lakh · received ₹4.10 lakh · spent ₹5.45 lakh · left ₹11.14 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹9.22 lakh · received ₹6.15 lakh · spent ₹5.08 lakh · left ₹10.29 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
24.1802, 87.0028 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Dumka district ·
School
staffing across Dumka ·
…and across Jharkhand