Mela Authoor

Alwarthirunagari block · Tuticorin district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 628151 · village code 642553

Population 2011

6,210

Census of India

Population 2020

6,318

Mission Antyodaya survey

Change

+1.7%

108 people · 0.2% a year

Households

2,370

+53.2% vs 1,547 in 2011

Census 2011

Total population

6,210

Male / female

3,126 / 3,084

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

987

Children aged 0–6

638

Literacy rate

78.6%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

1,003 / 0

Working population

2,316

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

49.4%

Households

1,547

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school

Piped tap water

50 to 100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Bus

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank

Yes

Primary health centre

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

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

412

Non-farm households

362

Share of households farming, 2020

53%

Net sown area

46 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

12 / 0 / 46

Main irrigation source

Canals

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Melathoor panchayat, Alwarthirunagari 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

₹37.88 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹15.04 lakh

Received directly

—

Spent

₹15.33 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹37.59 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹13.64 lakh · received ₹6.02 lakh · spent ₹5.59 lakh · left ₹14.07 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹24.24 lakh · received ₹9.03 lakh · spent ₹9.75 lakh · left ₹23.52 lakh

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

Location

8.6111, 78.0707 — view on OpenStreetMap

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