Kalavai
Poondi block · Thiruvallur
district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 602026
· village code 628828
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 459 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
459
Male / female
228 / 231
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,013
Children aged 0–6
44
Literacy rate
64.5%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
335 / 0
Working population
229
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
91.7%
Households
128
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 10 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
95
Teachers
5
Students per teacher
19
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
400
Non-farm households
90
Share of households farming, 2020
82%
Net sown area
0 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
0 / 0 / 0
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
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 —
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Nearby villages
Kakkalur (CT)
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Thiruvallur district ·
School
staffing across Thiruvallur ·
…and across Tamil Nadu