Melpathi
Kammapuram block · Cuddalore
district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 607802
· village code 637174
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 1,587 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 4,436 — 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
1,587
Male / female
774 / 813
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,050
Children aged 0–6
220
Literacy rate
64.3%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
594 / 19
Working population
629
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
42.1%
Households
371
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 1 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water
100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport nearest 1 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 1 km away
No
Primary health centre
Sub Centre
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
82
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
27
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
Yes
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
426
Non-farm households
320
Share of households farming, 2020
57%
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Melpathi panchayat, Kammapuram 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
₹32.57 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹9.41 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹22.49 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹19.49 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹10.62 lakh · received ₹3.76 lakh · spent ₹9.68 lakh · left ₹4.70 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹21.96 lakh · received ₹5.64 lakh · spent ₹12.81 lakh · left ₹14.79 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
11.5315, 79.4965 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Cuddalore district ·
School
staffing across Cuddalore ·
…and across Tamil Nadu