Potgaon

Desaiganj (Wadsa) block · Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra · PIN 441204 · village code 538489

Population 2011

1,403

Census of India

Population 2020

1,757

Mission Antyodaya survey

Change

+25.2%

354 people · 2.5% a year

Households

369

-2.6% vs 379 in 2011

Census 2011

Total population

1,403

Male / female

704 / 699

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

993

Children aged 0–6

150

Literacy rate

70.5%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

219 / 328

Working population

889

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

98.0%

Households

379

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school nearest 1 km away

Piped tap water

<50% habitation covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Bus

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank nearest 2 km away

Primary health centre

PHC

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

282

Non-farm households

Share of households farming, 2020

97%

Net sown area

76 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

76 / 64 / 12

Main irrigation source

Surface water

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Potgaon panchayat, Desaiganj (Wadsa) 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

₹14.22 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹5.45 lakh

Received directly

—

Spent

₹6.56 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹13.11 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹9.85 lakh · received ₹1.98 lakh · spent ₹1.77 lakh · left ₹10.06 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹4.38 lakh · received ₹3.47 lakh · spent ₹4.79 lakh · left ₹3.05 lakh

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

Location

20.5946, 80.0336 — view on OpenStreetMap

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