Pottagavayal
Nainarkoil block · Ramanathapuram
district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 623537
· village code 641887
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 2,265 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 5,800 — 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
2,265
Male / female
970 / 1,295
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,335
Children aged 0–6
259
Literacy rate
71.5%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
538 / 0
Working population
948
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
89.2%
Households
634
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 1 km away
No
High school nearest 5 km away
No
Piped tap water
only one habitation is covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank
Yes
Primary health centre
PHC
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
Yes
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
25
Teachers
2
Students per teacher
13
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
No
Farming
Farm households
65
Non-farm households
35
Share of households farming, 2020
65%
Net sown area
642 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
565 / 642 / 0
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Potagavayal panchayat, Nainarkoil 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
₹27.14 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹7.78 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹14.01 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹20.91 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹8,452 · received ₹3.11 lakh · spent ₹3.20 lakh · left ₹9
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹27.06 lakh · received ₹4.67 lakh · spent ₹10.81 lakh · left ₹20.91 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
9.5495, 78.6941 —
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How this village compares
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population changes in Ramanathapuram district ·
School
staffing across Ramanathapuram ·
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