Baldas

Turekela block · Balangir district, Odisha · PIN 767039 · village code 421236

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 540 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 6,876 — 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

540

Male / female

257 / 283

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

1,101

Children aged 0–6

Literacy rate

39.1%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

37 / 394

Working population

295

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

84.4%

Households

139

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school

Yes

Piped tap water

<50% habitation covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Bus

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank nearest 5 km away

Primary health centre nearest 5 km away

Anganwadi

Yes

Internet

Yes

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

420

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

185

Non-farm households

1,365

Share of households farming, 2020

12%

Net sown area

145 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

145 / 6 / 3

Main irrigation source

Surface water

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Dhamandanga panchayat, Turekela 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

₹11.94 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹20.67 lakh

Received directly

₹51,797

Spent

₹15.88 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹17.25 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹2.67 lakh · received ₹8.27 lakh · spent ₹1.96 lakh · left ₹9.50 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹9.27 lakh · received ₹12.40 lakh · spent ₹13.92 lakh · left ₹7.75 lakh

Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied together make up the totals above.

Location

20.5045, 82.7951 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

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