Pechua Population - West Garo Hills, Meghalaya

Pechua is a medium size village located in Selsella Block of West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya with total 41 families residing. The Pechua village has population of 222 of which 107 are males while 115 are females as per Population Census 2011.

In Pechua village population of children with age 0-6 is 37 which makes up 16.67 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Pechua village is 1075 which is higher than Meghalaya state average of 989. Child Sex Ratio for the Pechua as per census is 1313, higher than Meghalaya average of 970.

Pechua village has higher literacy rate compared to Meghalaya. In 2011, literacy rate of Pechua village was 80.00 % compared to 74.43 % of Meghalaya. In Pechua Male literacy stands at 81.32 % while female literacy rate was 78.72 %.

As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Pechua village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village. Our website, don't have information about schools and hospital in Pechua village.

Pechua Data

Particulars	Total	Male	Female
Total No. of Houses	41	-	-
Population	222	107	115
Child (0-6)	37	16	21
Schedule Caste	0	0	0
Schedule Tribe	218	104	114
Literacy	80.00 %	81.32 %	78.72 %
Total Workers	79	53	26
Main Worker	58	-	-
Marginal Worker	21	9	12

Caste Factor

In Pechua village, most of the village population is from Schedule Tribe (ST). Schedule Tribe (ST) constitutes 98.20 % of total population in Pechua village. There is no population of Schedule Caste (SC) in Pechua village of West Garo Hills.

Work Profile

In Pechua village out of total population, 79 were engaged in work activities. 73.42 % of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 26.58 % were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 79 workers engaged in Main Work, 37 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 12 were Agricultural labourer.