Mahachhai
Purushottampur block · Ganjam
district, Odisha · PIN 761103
· village code 411470
Population 2011
1,739
Census of India
Population 2020
1,913
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+10.0%
174 people · 1.1% a year
Households
430
+1.6% vs 423 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,739
Male / female
841 / 898
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,068
Children aged 0–6
248
Literacy rate
56.2%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
555 / 0
Working population
644
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
69.9%
Households
423
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water
<50% habitation covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 10 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
350
Teachers
8
Students per teacher
44
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
230
Non-farm households
200
Share of households farming, 2020
53%
Net sown area
3 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
2 / 2 / 3
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Tankachai panchayat, Purushottampur 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
₹47.89 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹20.67 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹19.62 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹48.94 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹24.90 lakh · received ₹8.27 lakh · spent ₹8.33 lakh · left ₹24.83 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹22.99 lakh · received ₹12.40 lakh · spent ₹11.28 lakh · left ₹24.11 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
19.5856, 84.7599 —
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