Palkonda

Malkangiri block · Malkangiri district, Odisha · PIN 764086 · village code 430287

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 804 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 2,287 — 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

804

Male / female

393 / 411

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

1,046

Children aged 0–6

153

Literacy rate

11.9%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

27 / 772

Working population

477

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

98.5%

Households

177

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school nearest 10 km away

Piped tap water nearest 10 km away

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Bus

Electricity

4-8 Hrs

Bank

Yes

Primary health centre

PHC

Anganwadi

Yes

Internet

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

225

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

135

Non-farm households

Share of households farming, 2020

93%

Net sown area

750 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

750 / 750 / 1

Main irrigation source

Surface water

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Sikhapalli panchayat, Malkangiri 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

₹37.09 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹25.02 lakh

Received directly

₹98,151

Spent

₹28.24 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹34.85 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹13.24 lakh · received ₹10.01 lakh · spent ₹10.97 lakh · left ₹13.25 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹23.86 lakh · received ₹15.01 lakh · spent ₹17.27 lakh · left ₹21.60 lakh

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

Location

18.3423, 81.8903 — view on OpenStreetMap

Nearby villages

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How this village compares

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