Sondwa

Sondwa block · Alirajpur district, Madhya Pradesh · PIN 457888 · village code 505430

Population 2011

3,946

Census of India

Population 2020

3,403

Mission Antyodaya survey

Change

-13.8%

-543 people · -1.6% a year

Households

641

-14.1% vs 746 in 2011

Census 2011

Total population

3,946

Male / female

1,923 / 2,023

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

1,052

Children aged 0–6

634

Literacy rate

48.4%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

202 / 3,223

Working population

1,670

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

58.4%

Households

746

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school

Yes

Piped tap water

100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Bus

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank

Yes

Primary health centre

CHC

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

670

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Yes

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

355

Non-farm households

121

Share of households farming, 2020

75%

Net sown area

322 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

322 / 68 / 8

Main irrigation source

Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Sondwa panchayat, Sondwa 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

₹20.13 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹8.78 lakh

Received directly

₹49.93 lakh

Spent

₹68.34 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹10.49 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹10.97 lakh · received ₹3.51 lakh · spent ₹41.55 lakh · left ₹10.49 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹9.16 lakh · received ₹5.27 lakh · spent ₹26.79 lakh · left ₹11

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

Location

22.1261, 74.3783 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

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