Mel (5)
Bhattiyat block · Chamba
district, Himachal Pradesh · PIN 176301
· village code 7384
Population 2011
1,139
Census of India
Population 2020
1,530
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+34.3%
391 people · 3.3% a year
Households
342
+39.6% vs 245 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,139
Male / female
545 / 594
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,090
Children aged 0–6
188
Literacy rate
62.8%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
257 / 5
Working population
242
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
65.7%
Households
245
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water
50 to 100% habitations covered
All-weather road nearest 2 km away
No
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank
Yes
Primary health centre
PHC
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
123
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
41
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
242
Non-farm households
100
Share of households farming, 2020
71%
Net sown area
104 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
104 / 100 / 22
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Mail panchayat, Bhatiyat 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
₹17.82 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹9.93 lakh
Received directly
₹3.52 lakh
Spent
₹8.64 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹22.63 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹7.97 lakh · received ₹4.11 lakh · spent ₹5.46 lakh · left ₹7.67 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹9.84 lakh · received ₹5.83 lakh · spent ₹3.17 lakh · left ₹14.96 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
32.5045, 75.9093 —
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