Melapavoor
Keelapavoor block · Tenkasi
district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 627808
· village code 642760
Population 2011
4,820
Census of India
Population 2020
3,942
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
-18.2%
-878 people · -2.2% a year
Households
1,426
+1.6% vs 1,404 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
4,820
Male / female
2,346 / 2,474
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,055
Children aged 0–6
484
Literacy rate
61.2%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
2,233 / 7
Working population
2,551
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
53.2%
Households
1,404
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
>12 hrs
Bank
Yes
Primary health centre nearest 2 km away
No
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
226
Teachers
7
Students per teacher
32
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
Yes
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
951
Non-farm households
475
Share of households farming, 2020
67%
Net sown area
570 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
70 / 570 / 162
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Melapavoor panchayat, Keelapavoor 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
₹55.78 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹15.82 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹30.71 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹40.89 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹20.96 lakh · received ₹6.33 lakh · spent ₹1.08 lakh · left ₹26.21 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹34.82 lakh · received ₹9.49 lakh · spent ₹29.63 lakh · left ₹14.68 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
8.9009, 77.4188 —
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