Songara
Pratappur block · Surajpur
district, Chhattisgarh · PIN 432291
· village code 432291
Population 2011
2,831
Census of India
Population 2020
2,868
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+1.3%
37 people · 0.1% a year
Households
744
+34.8% vs 552 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
2,831
Male / female
1,454 / 1,377
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
947
Children aged 0–6
476
Literacy rate
39.7%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
16 / 1,924
Working population
1,517
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
89.7%
Households
552
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water
50 to 100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank
Yes
Primary health centre
PHC
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
Yes
Common service centre
Separately located
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
278
Teachers
16
Students per teacher
17
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
712
Non-farm households
28
Share of households farming, 2020
96%
Net sown area
587 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
470 / 587 / 37
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Songara panchayat, Pratappur 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
₹6.72 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹12.30 lakh
Received directly
₹1.73 lakh
Spent
₹13.31 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹7.43 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹3.15 lakh · received ₹4.92 lakh · spent ₹5.52 lakh · left ₹3.21 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹3.57 lakh · received ₹7.38 lakh · spent ₹7.79 lakh · left ₹4.22 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
23.3035, 83.0838 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Surajpur district ·
School
staffing across Surajpur ·
…and across Chhattisgarh