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Gram panchayat · Tangi Choudwar block · Cuttack

Sankarpur gram panchayat

Sankarpur is a gram panchayat (village council) in Tangi Choudwar block of Cuttack district, Odisha, covering 3 villages, home to 4,441 people in 866 households at the 2011 census. It votes in the Athagarh assembly constituency and the Cuttack Lok Sabha constituency.

Villages
3
Population (2011)
4,441
Literacy
86.5%
Area
6.5 km²
LGD code
117166

Villages of Sankarpur

VillageHouseholdsPopulationLiteracySCST
Sankarpur8664,44186.5%8%8%
Champadeipur00–––
Haduanabatia00–––

Villages: Local Government Directory (lgdirectory.gov.in), Government of India — data dump of December 2022 via github.com/planemad/india-local-government-directory (December 2022). Figures: Census of India 2011, Primary Census Abstract (village level); a dash means the census figures could not be matched to the village.

People and work in Sankarpur

The panchayat's villages added together.

Population
4,441
2,295 male · 2,146 female
Households
866
about 5.1 people each
Literacy (age 7+)
86.5%
above Tangi Choudwar block's villages (81.4%)
Females per 1,000 males
935
below Tangi Choudwar block's villages (956)
Children aged 0–6
480
10.8% of residents
Workers
1,479
33.3% of residents
Scheduled Castes
372 (8.4%)
Scheduled Tribes
359 (8.1%)

What the 1,479 workers did

  • Cultivators262 (17.7%)
  • Agricultural labourers226 (15.3%)
  • Household industry150 (10.1%)
  • Other work451 (30.5%)
  • Marginal workers390 (26.4%)

Marginal workers worked less than six months of the year.

Source: Census of India 2011, Primary Census Abstract (village level), summed over the panchayat's villages (2011).

Facilities in the villages of Sankarpur

How many of the 1 inhabited villages of this gram panchayat had each facility within the village itself, from the Census 2011 Village Directory. Together the 3 villages cover 7 km², 58% of it sown with crops and 3% forest.

Education

  • Primary school1 of 1
  • Middle school1 of 1
  • Secondary school1 of 1
  • Senior secondary school0 of 1
  • Degree college0 of 1

Health

  • Primary health centre0 of 1
  • Health sub-centre1 of 1
  • Anganwadi centre1 of 1

Water & power

  • Treated tap water0 of 1
  • Hand pump1 of 1
  • Electricity for homes1 of 1

Roads & transport

  • All-weather road1 of 1
  • Public bus0 of 1
  • Mobile phone coverage1 of 1

Services

  • Post office or sub post office1 of 1
  • Commercial bank0 of 1
  • Ration (PDS) shop1 of 1
  • Weekly haat1 of 1
Primary schools
3
Middle schools
1
Secondary schools
1
Degree colleges
0
Primary health centres
0
Health sub-centres
1

Main crops named by villages: Paddy (1).

Source: Census of India 2011, District Census Handbook: Village and Town Directory (Odisha). The facilities were recorded for the 2011 census (reference year 2009 for most items); many places have changed since. Facilities in towns are not included.

Other gram panchayats in Tangi Choudwar block

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