Sakalo
Ambikapur block · Surguja
district, Chhattisgarh · PIN 497001
· village code 432950
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 2,056 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 55,100 — more than 2.5 times higher, which no village grows in nine years. One of the two is wrong and we cannot
tell which.
Census 2011
Total population
2,056
Male / female
1,018 / 1,038
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,020
Children aged 0–6
241
Literacy rate
57.0%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
139 / 1,059
Working population
804
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
82.1%
Households
431
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 10 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
8-12 Hrs
Bank nearest 10 km away
No
Primary health centre
Sub Centre
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
350
Teachers
8
Students per teacher
44
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
153
Non-farm households
142
Share of households farming, 2020
52%
Net sown area
2 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
2 / 0 / 0
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Sakalo panchayat, Ambikapur 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
₹19.37 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹10.63 lakh
Received directly
₹4.33 lakh
Spent
₹16.84 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹17.49 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹4.40 lakh · received ₹4.09 lakh · spent ₹3.23 lakh · left ₹5.26 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹14.97 lakh · received ₹6.54 lakh · spent ₹13.61 lakh · left ₹12.22 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
23.1210, 83.1795 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Surguja district ·
School
staffing across Surguja ·
…and across Chhattisgarh