Paundi

Baihar block · Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh · PIN 481105 · village code 498213

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 781 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 2,899 — 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

781

Male / female

370 / 411

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

1,111

Children aged 0–6

141

Literacy rate

53.0%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

0 / 504

Working population

460

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

99.1%

Households

201

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school nearest 2 km away

Piped tap water

<50% habitation covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Bus

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank nearest 2 km away

Primary health centre

PHC

Anganwadi

Yes

Internet

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

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

650

Non-farm households

188

Share of households farming, 2020

78%

Net sown area

300 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

300 / 200 / 100

Main irrigation source

Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Pondi( U) panchayat, Baihar 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

₹12.64 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹4.07 lakh

Received directly

—

Spent

₹9.42 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹7.29 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹3.87 lakh · received ₹1.63 lakh · spent ₹3.17 lakh · left ₹2.33 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹8.77 lakh · received ₹2.44 lakh · spent ₹6.26 lakh · left ₹4.96 lakh

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

Location

21.9640, 80.4713 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

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