Meghpura
Tharad block · Banas Kantha
district, Gujarat · PIN 385565
· village code 507537
Population 2011
1,385
Census of India
Population 2020
1,500
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+8.3%
115 people · 0.9% a year
Households
300
+31.0% vs 229 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,385
Male / female
716 / 669
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
934
Children aged 0–6
251
Literacy rate
50.3%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
64 / 4
Working population
662
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
62.5%
Households
229
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 10 km away
No
Piped tap water
100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank
Yes
Primary health centre nearest 10 km away
No
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
50
Teachers
12
Students per teacher
4
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
Yes
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
200
Non-farm households
100
Share of households farming, 2020
67%
Net sown area
100 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
100 / 100 / 100
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Changada panchayat, Tharad 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
₹19.10 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹15.11 lakh
Received directly
₹3.00 lakh
Spent
₹5.39 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹31.82 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹8.31 lakh · received ₹6.04 lakh · spent ₹4.60 lakh · left ₹12.75 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹10.79 lakh · received ₹9.07 lakh · spent ₹79,400 · left ₹19.07 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
24.3964, 71.6202 —
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