Melana
Vallabhipur block · Bhavnagar
district, Gujarat · PIN 364760
· village code 516069
Population 2011
1,140
Census of India
Population 2020
1,160
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+1.8%
20 people · 0.2% a year
Households
194
+2.1% vs 190 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,140
Male / female
592 / 548
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
926
Children aged 0–6
124
Literacy rate
65.0%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
112 / 0
Working population
443
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
52.1%
Households
190
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
No
High school
No
Piped tap water
100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank
No
Primary health centre
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
116
Teachers
6
Students per teacher
19
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
Yes
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
125
Non-farm households
69
Share of households farming, 2020
64%
Net sown area
521 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
521 / 55 / 95
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Melana panchayat, Vallabhipur 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
₹7.27 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹4.98 lakh
Received directly
₹16,068
Spent
₹5.91 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹6.50 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹1.70 lakh · received ₹1.99 lakh · spent ₹1.87 lakh · left ₹1.98 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹5.57 lakh · received ₹2.99 lakh · spent ₹4.04 lakh · left ₹4.51 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
21.8919, 71.8671 —
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