Morchand
Ghogha block · Bhavnagar
district, Gujarat · PIN 364050
· village code 516317
Population 2011
4,492
Census of India
Population 2020
4,491
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
-0.0%
-1 people · -0.0% a year
Households
1,050
+37.8% vs 762 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
4,492
Male / female
2,307 / 2,185
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
947
Children aged 0–6
718
Literacy rate
62.4%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
80 / 0
Working population
1,334
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
86.4%
Households
762
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water
100% habitations covered
All-weather road nearest 1 km away
No
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 5 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
600
Teachers
26
Students per teacher
23
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
Yes
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
No
Farming
Farm households
95
Non-farm households
5
Share of households farming, 2020
95%
Net sown area
956 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
956 / 356 / 4
Main irrigation source
Surface water
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Morchand panchayat, Ghogha 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
₹34.82 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹0
Received directly
₹8.56 lakh
Spent
₹16.20 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹27.18 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹9.70 lakh · received ₹0 · spent ₹10.83 lakh · left ₹2.30 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹25.12 lakh · received ₹0 · spent ₹5.37 lakh · left ₹24.88 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
21.7838, 72.1426 —
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