Brajnagar
Surajpur block · Surajpur
district, Chhattisgarh · PIN 497229
· village code 432507
Population 2011
1,188
Census of India
Population 2020
1,366
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+15.0%
178 people · 1.6% a year
Households
367
+28.8% vs 285 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,188
Male / female
612 / 576
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
941
Children aged 0–6
185
Literacy rate
54.2%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
57 / 457
Working population
548
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
91.4%
Households
285
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport nearest 2 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 5 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 5 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
Yes
Common service centre
No CSC
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
113
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
28
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
227
Non-farm households
9
Share of households farming, 2020
96%
Net sown area
255 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
255 / 41 / 0
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Brijnagar panchayat, Surajpur 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
₹11.73 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹5.11 lakh
Received directly
₹3.16 lakh
Spent
₹5.87 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹14.14 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹1.62 lakh · received ₹2.04 lakh · spent ₹2.81 lakh · left ₹2.42 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹10.11 lakh · received ₹3.07 lakh · spent ₹3.06 lakh · left ₹11.72 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
23.2890, 83.1158 —
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How this village compares
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