Balur

Peranambattu block · Vellore district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 635810 · village code 630324

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 6,147 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 3,500 — a drop of more than 40%. One of the two is wrong and we cannot tell which.

Census 2011

Total population

6,147

Male / female

3,074 / 3,073

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

1,000

Children aged 0–6

677

Literacy rate

63.3%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

2,586 / 30

Working population

2,812

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

36.3%

Households

1,412

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school

Yes

Piped tap water

50 to 100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Van

Electricity

1-4 hrs

Bank

Yes

Primary health centre

PHC

Anganwadi

Yes

Internet

Yes

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

Boys

Computer lab

Yes

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

Non-farm households

Share of households farming, 2020

50%

Net sown area

2 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

2 / 2 / 2

Main irrigation source

Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Balur panchayat, Pernambet 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

₹44.60 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹10.88 lakh

Received directly

—

Spent

₹15.24 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹40.25 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹17.58 lakh · received ₹4.35 lakh · spent ₹1.59 lakh · left ₹20.35 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹27.03 lakh · received ₹6.53 lakh · spent ₹13.66 lakh · left ₹19.90 lakh

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

Location

12.9369, 78.6819 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

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