West Chhuwaru (59)
Mehla block · Chamba
district, Himachal Pradesh · PIN 176318
· village code 7824
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 173 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 463 — 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
173
Male / female
88 / 85
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
966
Children aged 0–6
31
Literacy rate
44.5%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
0 / 172
Working population
124
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
32.3%
Households
33
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 2 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water
<50% habitation covered
All-weather road nearest 5 km away
No
Public transport nearest 5 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 10 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 2 km away
No
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
25
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
8
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
0
Non-farm households
0
Net sown area
2 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
2 / 2 / 2
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Jatkari panchayat, Mehla 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
₹6.25 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹9.77 lakh
Received directly
₹4.47 lakh
Spent
₹14.39 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹6.08 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹6.21 lakh · received ₹4.04 lakh · spent ₹8.02 lakh · left ₹3.22 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹3,493 · received ₹5.73 lakh · spent ₹6.38 lakh · left ₹2.86 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
32.5455, 76.1155 —
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Nearby villages
Utip Jangal (180)
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Chamba district ·
School
staffing across Chamba ·
…and across Himachal Pradesh