Palakarai

Perundurai block · Erode district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 638057 · village code 634973

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 3,570 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 600 — a drop of more than 40%. One of the two is wrong and we cannot tell which.

Census 2011

Total population

3,570

Male / female

1,816 / 1,754

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

966

Children aged 0–6

302

Literacy rate

63.9%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

565 / 1

Working population

1,953

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

39.4%

Households

1,147

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school

Yes

Piped tap water

100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Bus

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank

Yes

Primary health centre nearest 1 km away

Anganwadi

Yes

Internet

Yes

Common service centre

No CSC

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

Farming

Farm households

Non-farm households

Share of households farming, 2020

47%

Net sown area

258 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

119 / 258 / 58

Main irrigation source

Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Thudupathi panchayat, Perundurai 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

₹74.10 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹19.32 lakh

Received directly

—

Spent

₹55.83 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹37.59 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹26.30 lakh · received ₹7.73 lakh · spent ₹22.64 lakh · left ₹11.39 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹47.80 lakh · received ₹11.59 lakh · spent ₹33.19 lakh · left ₹26.20 lakh

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

Location

11.3535, 77.6210 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

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