Sikkal

Kadaladi block · Ramanathapuram district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 623528 · village code 642058

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 2,301 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 9,987 — 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

2,301

Male / female

1,190 / 1,111

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

934

Children aged 0–6

257

Literacy rate

68.1%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

307 / 0

Working population

751

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

93.9%

Households

555

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school nearest 5 km away

High school nearest 5 km away

Piped tap water

<50% habitation covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Van

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank

Yes

Primary health centre

CHC

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

354

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Yes

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

1,838

Non-farm households

260

Share of households farming, 2020

88%

Net sown area

566 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

566 / 0 / 0

Main irrigation source

Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Sikkal A/C 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

₹32.36 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹18.98 lakh

Received directly

—

Spent

₹28.62 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹22.73 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹6.62 lakh · received ₹7.59 lakh · spent ₹13.13 lakh · left ₹1.08 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹25.75 lakh · received ₹11.39 lakh · spent ₹15.49 lakh · left ₹21.65 lakh

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

Location

9.2252, 78.5110 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

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