Chirai
Shankargarh block · Balrampur
district, Chhattisgarh · PIN 497118
· village code 432453
Population 2011
748
Census of India
Population 2020
825
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+10.3%
77 people · 1.1% a year
Households
170
+13.3% vs 150 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
748
Male / female
379 / 369
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
974
Children aged 0–6
134
Literacy rate
42.9%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
3 / 689
Working population
355
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
97.2%
Households
150
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 5 km away
No
Piped tap water
<50% habitation covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport nearest 5 km away
No
Electricity
8-12 Hrs
Bank nearest 10 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 10 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
Yes
Common service centre
Colocated with Panchayat Bhawan
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
20
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
7
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
150
Non-farm households
0
Share of households farming, 2020
100%
Net sown area
65 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
65 / 65 / 0
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Chirai panchayat, Shankargarh 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
₹4.38 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹10.27 lakh
Received directly
₹10,431
Spent
₹7.78 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹6.97 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹1.27 lakh · received ₹4.04 lakh · spent ₹1.77 lakh · left ₹3.64 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹3.11 lakh · received ₹6.23 lakh · spent ₹6.01 lakh · left ₹3.33 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
23.2912, 83.6604 —
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