Echchanda
Melaneelithanallur block · Tenkasi
district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 627857
· village code 642713
Population 2011
3,744
Census of India
Population 2020
3,765
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+0.6%
21 people · 0.1% a year
Households
1,360
+28.9% vs 1,055 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
3,744
Male / female
1,857 / 1,887
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,016
Children aged 0–6
392
Literacy rate
56.4%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
487 / 0
Working population
2,239
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
87.5%
Households
1,055
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
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank
Yes
Primary health centre
Sub 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
149
Teachers
11
Students per teacher
14
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
380
Non-farm households
0
Share of households farming, 2020
100%
Net sown area
721 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
721 / 49 / 674
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Echanda panchayat, Melaneelithanallur 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
₹37.94 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹11.51 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹27.15 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹22.30 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹10.31 lakh · received ₹4.61 lakh · spent ₹8.41 lakh · left ₹6.51 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹27.63 lakh · received ₹6.91 lakh · spent ₹18.74 lakh · left ₹15.79 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
9.0811, 77.5121 —
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