Sigar
Kilvelur block · Nagapattinam
district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 610106
· village code 637734
Population 2011
1,663
Census of India
Population 2020
1,963
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+18.0%
300 people · 1.9% a year
Households
1,040
+127.6% vs 457 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,663
Male / female
811 / 852
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,051
Children aged 0–6
136
Literacy rate
77.0%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
791 / 0
Working population
915
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
94.6%
Households
457
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
8-12 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
60
Teachers
5
Students per teacher
12
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
130
Non-farm households
70
Share of households farming, 2020
65%
Main irrigation source
Canals
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Sigar panchayat, Kilvelur 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
₹26.52 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹5.80 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹13.31 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹19.01 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹9.53 lakh · received ₹2.32 lakh · spent ₹4.23 lakh · left ₹7.62 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹16.99 lakh · received ₹3.48 lakh · spent ₹9.08 lakh · left ₹11.38 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
10.7748, 79.7300 —
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