Kattalai
Marakkanam block · Villupuram
district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 604001
· village code 632604
Population 2011
1,453
Census of India
Population 2020
2,142
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+47.4%
689 people · 4.4% a year
Households
407
+11.5% vs 365 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,453
Male / female
723 / 730
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,010
Children aged 0–6
163
Literacy rate
51.4%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
3 / 0
Working population
728
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
73.5%
Households
365
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 5 km away
No
Piped tap water
50 to 100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 5 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 2 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
Common service centre
Separately located
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
20
Teachers
2
Students per teacher
10
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
Yes
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
370
Non-farm households
37
Share of households farming, 2020
91%
Net sown area
57 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
53 / 57 / 0
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Kattalai panchayat, Merkanam 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
₹34.77 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹6.34 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹12.46 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹28.65 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹13.68 lakh · received ₹2.53 lakh · spent ₹3.97 lakh · left ₹12.24 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹21.09 lakh · received ₹3.80 lakh · spent ₹8.49 lakh · left ₹16.41 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
12.1982, 79.7649 —
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