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Nongshken Population - East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya

Nongshken is a medium size village located in Pynursla Block of East Khasi Hills district, Meghalaya with total 331 families residing. The Nongshken village has population of 1781 of which 858 are males while 923 are females as per Population Census 2011.

In Nongshken village population of children with age 0-6 is 259 which makes up 14.54 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Nongshken village is 1076 which is higher than Meghalaya state average of 989. Child Sex Ratio for the Nongshken as per census is 1214, higher than Meghalaya average of 970.

Nongshken village has higher literacy rate compared to Meghalaya. In 2011, literacy rate of Nongshken village was 89.42 % compared to 74.43 % of Meghalaya. In Nongshken Male literacy stands at 90.01 % while female literacy rate was 88.86 %.

As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Nongshken 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 Nongshken village.

Nongshken Data

Particulars Total Male Female
Total No. of Houses 331 - -
Population 1,781 858 923
Child (0-6) 259 117 142
Schedule Caste 0 0 0
Schedule Tribe 1,772 854 918
Literacy 89.42 % 90.01 % 88.86 %
Total Workers 743 456 287
Main Worker 672 - -
Marginal Worker 71 33 38

Caste Factor

In Nongshken village, most of the village population is from Schedule Tribe (ST). Schedule Tribe (ST) constitutes 99.49 % of total population in Nongshken village. There is no population of Schedule Caste (SC) in Nongshken village of East Khasi Hills.

Work Profile

In Nongshken village out of total population, 743 were engaged in work activities. 90.44 % of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 9.56 % were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 743 workers engaged in Main Work, 0 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 1 were Agricultural labourer.