Bengaon
Lanjigarh block · Kalahandi
district, Odisha · PIN 766020
· village code 422999
Population 2011
391
Census of India
Population 2020
523
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+33.8%
132 people · 3.3% a year
Households
105
+28.1% vs 82 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
391
Male / female
210 / 181
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
862
Children aged 0–6
70
Literacy rate
56.0%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
56 / 256
Working population
137
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
78.8%
Households
82
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
4-8 Hrs
Bank
Yes
Primary health centre
PHC
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
100
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
25
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
No
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
40
Non-farm households
65
Share of households farming, 2020
38%
Net sown area
16 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
16 / 5 / 5
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Benagaon panchayat, Lanjigarh 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
₹38.29 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹16.32 lakh
Received directly
₹1.15 lakh
Spent
₹4.48 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹51.28 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹16.23 lakh · received ₹6.53 lakh · spent ₹1.50 lakh · left ₹22.40 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹22.07 lakh · received ₹9.79 lakh · spent ₹2.98 lakh · left ₹28.87 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
20.1622, 82.9382 —
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