Karanji
Surajpur block · Surajpur
district, Chhattisgarh · PIN 497226
· village code 432591
Population 2011
2,012
Census of India
Population 2020
2,804
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+39.4%
792 people · 3.8% a year
Households
508
-0.2% vs 509 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
2,012
Male / female
1,019 / 993
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
974
Children aged 0–6
282
Literacy rate
66.5%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
169 / 162
Working population
857
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
74.5%
Households
509
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 nearest 5 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank
Yes
Primary health centre
Sub Centre
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
73
Teachers
5
Students per teacher
15
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
337
Non-farm households
80
Share of households farming, 2020
81%
Net sown area
251 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
251 / 10 / 0
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Karanji 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
₹8.55 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹8.38 lakh
Received directly
₹17.68 lakh
Spent
₹28.03 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹6.57 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹2.20 lakh · received ₹3.35 lakh · spent ₹6.48 lakh · left ₹4.05 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹6.35 lakh · received ₹5.03 lakh · spent ₹21.55 lakh · left ₹2.53 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
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