Belara

Sitamau block · Mandsaur district, Madhya Pradesh · PIN 458990 · village code 469888

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 1,178 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 13,616 — 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

1,178

Male / female

587 / 591

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

1,007

Children aged 0–6

143

Literacy rate

62.8%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

164 / 9

Working population

536

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

88.6%

Households

246

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school nearest 5 km away

Piped tap water

50 to 100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Bus

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank nearest 2 km away

Primary health centre nearest 10 km away

Anganwadi

Yes

Internet

Yes

Common service centre

Separately located

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

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Girls

Computer lab

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

200

Non-farm households

Share of households farming, 2020

74%

Net sown area

2 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

2 / 2 / 2

Main irrigation source

Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Belara panchayat, Sitamau 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

₹8.25 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹13.85 lakh

Received directly

₹75,000

Spent

₹13.51 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹9.34 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹3.06 lakh · received ₹5.54 lakh · spent ₹3.72 lakh · left ₹4.87 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹5.19 lakh · received ₹8.31 lakh · spent ₹9.78 lakh · left ₹4.47 lakh

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

Location

23.9820, 75.4700 — view on OpenStreetMap

Nearby villages

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How this village compares

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