Melakandai
Madurantakam block · Chengalpattu
district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 603311
· village code 630083
Population 2011
812
Census of India
Population 2020
1,012
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+24.6%
200 people · 2.5% a year
Households
202
+3.6% vs 195 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
812
Male / female
408 / 404
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
990
Children aged 0–6
88
Literacy rate
62.4%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
472 / 12
Working population
347
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
23.1%
Households
195
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 5 km away
No
High school nearest 5 km away
No
Piped tap water
100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 5 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
45
Teachers
2
Students per teacher
23
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
13
Non-farm households
156
Share of households farming, 2020
8%
Net sown area
22 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
22 / 22 / 0
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Keelakandai panchayat, Madurantakam 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
₹27.87 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹9.73 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹23.22 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹14.38 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹9.40 lakh · received ₹3.89 lakh · spent ₹13.09 lakh · left ₹19,824
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹18.47 lakh · received ₹5.84 lakh · spent ₹10.13 lakh · left ₹14.18 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
12.6126, 79.9288 —
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