Palwa
Tokapal block · Bastar
district, Chhattisgarh · PIN 494442
· village code 449567
Population 2011
1,700
Census of India
Population 2020
1,820
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+7.1%
120 people · 0.8% a year
Households
432
+2.4% vs 422 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,700
Male / female
852 / 848
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
995
Children aged 0–6
262
Literacy rate
41.0%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
0 / 855
Working population
669
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
55.2%
Households
422
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water
100% habitations covered
All-weather road nearest 2 km away
No
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 5 km away
No
Primary health centre
PHC
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
32
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
11
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
295
Non-farm households
137
Share of households farming, 2020
68%
Net sown area
91 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
91 / 0 / 0
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Palwa panchayat, Tokapal 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
₹6.90 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹13.11 lakh
Received directly
₹6.70 lakh
Spent
₹19.71 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹7.00 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹2.68 lakh · received ₹5.31 lakh · spent ₹8.18 lakh · left ₹3.31 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹4.22 lakh · received ₹7.80 lakh · spent ₹11.53 lakh · left ₹3.69 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
19.0090, 81.8890 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Bastar district ·
School
staffing across Bastar ·
…and across Chhattisgarh