Dand Kesra
Lakhanpur block · Surguja
district, Chhattisgarh · PIN 497116
· village code 433071
Population 2011
723
Census of India
Population 2020
732
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+1.2%
9 people · 0.1% a year
Households
347
+110.3% vs 165 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
723
Male / female
370 / 353
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
954
Children aged 0–6
145
Literacy rate
24.2%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
0 / 281
Working population
293
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
91.1%
Households
165
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
Auto
Electricity
8-12 Hrs
Bank nearest 10 km away
No
Primary health centre
PHC
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
37
Teachers
7
Students per teacher
5
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
247
Non-farm households
100
Share of households farming, 2020
71%
Net sown area
174 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
174 / 100 / 0
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Dandkesra panchayat, Lakhanpur 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
₹3.58 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹3.74 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹5.38 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹1.93 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹1.52 lakh · received ₹1.44 lakh · spent ₹2.24 lakh · left ₹72,322
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹2.05 lakh · received ₹2.30 lakh · spent ₹3.14 lakh · left ₹1.21 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
23.2028, 82.8722 —
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