Methan

Jamjodhpur block · Jamnagar district, Gujarat · PIN 360480 · village code 514130

Population 2011

804

Census of India

Population 2020

913

Mission Antyodaya survey

Change

+13.6%

109 people · 1.4% a year

Households

201

+11.1% vs 181 in 2011

Census 2011

Total population

804

Male / female

403 / 401

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

995

Children aged 0–6

Literacy rate

63.8%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

360 / 0

Working population

446

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

92.8%

Households

181

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school nearest 5 km away

Piped tap water

100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Bus

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank nearest 2 km away

Primary health centre nearest 5 km away

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

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Yes

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

130

Non-farm households

Share of households farming, 2020

65%

Net sown area

463 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

463 / 240 / 229

Main irrigation source

Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Methan panchayat, Jamjodhpur 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

₹12.60 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹5.66 lakh

Received directly

—

Spent

₹2.07 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹16.19 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹1.97 lakh · received ₹2.26 lakh · spent ₹2.07 lakh · left ₹2.17 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹10.63 lakh · received ₹3.40 lakh · spent ₹0 · left ₹14.02 lakh

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

Location

22.1982, 69.9600 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

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