Gama
Shikarpur block · Shivamogga
district, Karnataka · PIN 577214
· village code 607820
Population 2011
3,619
Census of India
Population 2020
3,594
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
-0.7%
-25 people · -0.1% a year
Households
900
+10.0% vs 818 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
3,619
Male / female
1,828 / 1,791
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
980
Children aged 0–6
360
Literacy rate
74.6%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
526 / 46
Working population
1,565
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
85.8%
Households
818
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
>12 hrs
Bank
Yes
Primary health centre nearest 2 km away
No
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
136
Teachers
13
Students per teacher
11
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
610
Non-farm households
290
Share of households farming, 2020
68%
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Gama panchayat, Shikarpur 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
₹16.20 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹9.82 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹17.32 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹8.70 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹6.55 lakh · received ₹3.93 lakh · spent ₹5.19 lakh · left ₹5.28 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹9.65 lakh · received ₹5.89 lakh · spent ₹12.12 lakh · left ₹3.42 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
14.2162, 75.3341 —
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