Barka
Devsar block · Singrauli
district, Madhya Pradesh · PIN 486669
· village code 503813
Population 2011
2,804
Census of India
Population 2020
2,856
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+1.9%
52 people · 0.2% a year
Households
697
+9.1% vs 639 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
2,804
Male / female
1,410 / 1,394
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
989
Children aged 0–6
518
Literacy rate
46.5%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
475 / 1,266
Working population
1,420
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
91.3%
Households
639
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 10 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
316
Teachers
8
Students per teacher
40
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
579
Non-farm households
60
Share of households farming, 2020
91%
Net sown area
786 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
786 / 244 / 0
Main irrigation source
Canals
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Barka panchayat, Devsar 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
₹26.49 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹6.55 lakh
Received directly
₹3.00 lakh
Spent
₹14.97 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹21.06 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹8.54 lakh · received ₹2.62 lakh · spent ₹8.41 lakh · left ₹5.75 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹17.95 lakh · received ₹3.93 lakh · spent ₹6.56 lakh · left ₹15.31 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
24.1441, 82.1407 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Singrauli district ·
School
staffing across Singrauli ·
…and across Madhya Pradesh