Megnanapuram

Udangudi block · Tuticorin district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 628210 · village code 642581

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 2,502 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 6,321 — 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

2,502

Male / female

1,191 / 1,311

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

1,101

Children aged 0–6

231

Literacy rate

86.3%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

90 / 0

Working population

868

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

42.9%

Households

649

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school

Yes

Piped tap water

100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Bus

Electricity

8-12 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

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

Non-farm households

Share of households farming, 2020

63%

Net sown area

159 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

159 / 0 / 159

Main irrigation source

Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Meingnanapuram panchayat, Udangudi 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

₹25.01 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹9.73 lakh

Received directly

₹66,962

Spent

₹15.14 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹20.27 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹11.11 lakh · received ₹3.89 lakh · spent ₹8.97 lakh · left ₹6.03 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹13.90 lakh · received ₹5.84 lakh · spent ₹6.17 lakh · left ₹14.24 lakh

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

Location

8.4324, 78.0328 — view on OpenStreetMap

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