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Chithirangudi

Kadaladi block · Ramanathapuram district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 623704 · village code 641989

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 599 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 2,170 — 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
599
Male / female
288 / 311
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,080
Children aged 0–6
35
Literacy rate
59.8%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
184 / 0
Working population
217
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
80.2%
Households
184

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 10 km away
No
Piped tap water
100% habitations covered
All-weather road nearest 5 km away
No
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 10 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 10 km away
No
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
65
Teachers
2
Students per teacher
33
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
Yes
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
No
Mid-day meal
Yes

Farming

Farm households
426
Non-farm households
0
Share of households farming, 2020
100%
Net sown area
592 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
592 / 0 / 0
Main irrigation source
Surface water

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Chithirangudi panchayat, Kadaladi 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
₹9.35 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹2.86 lakh
Received directly
Spent
₹56,510
Unspent at year end
₹11.65 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹3.78 lakh · received ₹1.15 lakh · spent ₹0 · left ₹4.93 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹5.58 lakh · received ₹1.72 lakh · spent ₹56,510 · left ₹6.73 lakh

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

Location

9.2252, 78.4927 — view on OpenStreetMap

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