Basanta Population - Jagatsinghapur, Orissa

Basanta is a medium size village located in Balikuda Block of Jagatsinghapur district, Orissa with total 104 families residing. The Basanta village has population of 485 of which 236 are males while 249 are females as per Population Census 2011.

In Basanta village population of children with age 0-6 is 60 which makes up 12.37 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Basanta village is 1055 which is higher than Orissa state average of 979. Child Sex Ratio for the Basanta as per census is 765, lower than Orissa average of 941.

Basanta village has higher literacy rate compared to Orissa. In 2011, literacy rate of Basanta village was 85.18 % compared to 72.87 % of Orissa. In Basanta Male literacy stands at 93.07 % while female literacy rate was 78.03 %.

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

Basanta Data

Particulars	Total	Male	Female
Total No. of Houses	104	-	-
Population	485	236	249
Child (0-6)	60	34	26
Schedule Caste	195	89	106
Schedule Tribe	0	0	0
Literacy	85.18 %	93.07 %	78.03 %
Total Workers	148	123	25
Main Worker	99	-	-
Marginal Worker	49	28	21

Caste Factor

In Basanta village, most of the villagers are from Schedule Caste (SC). Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 40.21 % of total population in Basanta village. The village Basanta currently doesn’t have any Schedule Tribe (ST) population.

Work Profile

In Basanta village out of total population, 148 were engaged in work activities. 66.89 % of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 33.11 % were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 148 workers engaged in Main Work, 46 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 30 were Agricultural labourer.