Mettupalayam

Sriperumbudur block · Kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 631604 · village code 629295

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 1,068 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 2,910 — 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

1,068

Male / female

557 / 511

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

917

Children aged 0–6

143

Literacy rate

62.7%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

813 / 0

Working population

503

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

17.1%

Households

271

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school nearest 2 km away

High school nearest 2 km away

Piped tap water

100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport nearest 2 km away

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank nearest 2 km away

Primary health centre nearest 10 km away

Anganwadi

Yes

Internet

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

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

Non-farm households

Share of households farming, 2020

75%

Net sown area

277 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

277 / 74 / 204

Main irrigation source

Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Mettupalayam panchayat, Sriperumbudur 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

₹21.52 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹4.52 lakh

Received directly

—

Spent

₹4.37 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹21.67 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹10.14 lakh · received ₹1.81 lakh · spent ₹13,699 · left ₹11.81 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹11.38 lakh · received ₹2.71 lakh · spent ₹4.23 lakh · left ₹9.86 lakh

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

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