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Edambedu

Poondi block · Thiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 602026 · village code 628826

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 321 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 1,500 — 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
321
Male / female
159 / 162
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,019
Children aged 0–6
31
Literacy rate
54.2%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
270 / 0
Working population
176
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
80.1%
Households
88

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 5 km away
No
High school nearest 10 km away
No
Piped tap water
100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 10 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 5 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
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
30
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
10
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes

Farming

Farm households
25
Non-farm households
90
Share of households farming, 2020
22%
Net sown area
0 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
0 / 0 / 0
Main irrigation source
Other

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Kalavai panchayat, Poondi 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
₹25.59 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹5.81 lakh
Received directly
Spent
₹14.42 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹16.98 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹9.46 lakh · received ₹2.32 lakh · spent ₹4.24 lakh · left ₹7.55 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹16.12 lakh · received ₹3.49 lakh · spent ₹10.18 lakh · left ₹9.43 lakh

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

Location

13.3273, 79.9274 — view on OpenStreetMap

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