Karwal (55)
Saluni block · Chamba
district, Himachal Pradesh · PIN 176312
· village code 7348
Population 2011
381
Census of India
Population 2020
518
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+36.0%
137 people · 3.5% a year
Households
98
+44.1% vs 68 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
381
Male / female
186 / 195
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,048
Children aged 0–6
61
Literacy rate
55.4%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
171 / 0
Working population
256
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
85.9%
Households
68
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water
<50% habitation covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 10 km away
No
Primary health centre
PHC
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
Common service centre
No CSC
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
71
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
18
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
88
Non-farm households
6
Share of households farming, 2020
94%
Net sown area
170 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
100 / 80 / 170
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Karwal panchayat, Salooni 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
₹14.88 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹12.34 lakh
Received directly
₹3.00 lakh
Spent
₹7.66 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹22.56 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹8.81 lakh · received ₹5.44 lakh · spent ₹6.43 lakh · left ₹10.82 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹6.07 lakh · received ₹6.90 lakh · spent ₹1.23 lakh · left ₹11.74 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
32.7106, 75.9652 —
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