Melaselvanur
Kadaladi block · Ramanathapuram
district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 623703
· village code 642080
Population 2011
1,694
Census of India
Population 2020
2,460
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+45.2%
766 people · 4.2% a year
Households
780
+84.0% vs 424 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,694
Male / female
856 / 838
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
979
Children aged 0–6
181
Literacy rate
64.4%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
458 / 0
Working population
1,033
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
77.9%
Households
424
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water
<50% habitation covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 1 km away
No
Primary health centre
Sub Centre
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
40
Teachers
6
Students per teacher
7
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
320
Non-farm households
460
Share of households farming, 2020
41%
Main irrigation source
Surface water
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Melaselvanur 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
₹32.66 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹8.00 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹26.03 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹14.63 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹8.80 lakh · received ₹3.20 lakh · spent ₹11.71 lakh · left ₹28,888
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹23.86 lakh · received ₹4.80 lakh · spent ₹14.32 lakh · left ₹14.34 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
9.2252, 78.5110 —
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