Desai Ban

Laxmeshwar block · Gadag district, Karnataka · PIN 582116 · village code 602059

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 48 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 2,400 — more than 2.5 times higher, which no village grows in nine years. One of the two is wrong and we cannot tell which.

Census 2011

Total population

Male / female

27 / 21

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

778

Children aged 0–6

Literacy rate

77.1%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

12 / 0

Working population

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

73.9%

Households

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school

Yes

Piped tap water

100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Bus

Electricity

4-8 Hrs

Bank

Yes

Primary health centre

CHC

Anganwadi

Yes

Internet

Yes

Common service centre

No CSC

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

210

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Yes

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

100

Non-farm households

150

Share of households farming, 2020

40%

Net sown area

90 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

90 / 50 / 10

Main irrigation source

Other

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Ramagiri panchayat, Laxmeshwara 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

₹56.47 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹16.65 lakh

Received directly

—

Spent

₹34.68 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹38.43 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹2.53 lakh · received ₹9.41 lakh · spent ₹11.73 lakh · left ₹20,665

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹53.94 lakh · received ₹7.23 lakh · spent ₹22.95 lakh · left ₹38.23 lakh

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

Location

15.1532, 75.4336 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

Biggest population changes in Gadag district · School staffing across Gadag · …and across Karnataka