Asgawan
Mainpat block · Surguja
district, Chhattisgarh · PIN 497111
· village code 433547
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 1,265 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 17,000 — 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
1,265
Male / female
658 / 607
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
922
Children aged 0–6
240
Literacy rate
26.1%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
0 / 1,162
Working population
615
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
96.9%
Households
307
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 nearest 10 km away
No
Public transport nearest 10 km away
No
Electricity
1-4 hrs
Bank nearest 10 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 5 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
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
160
Teachers
6
Students per teacher
27
Electricity
No
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
265
Non-farm households
85
Share of households farming, 2020
76%
Net sown area
229 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
229 / 212 / 4
Main irrigation source
Other
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Asgawan panchayat, Mainpat 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
₹10.69 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹6.54 lakh
Received directly
₹4.78 lakh
Spent
₹13.79 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹8.22 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹2.07 lakh · received ₹2.52 lakh · spent ₹3.34 lakh · left ₹2.97 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹8.63 lakh · received ₹4.02 lakh · spent ₹10.45 lakh · left ₹5.25 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
22.8284, 83.3221 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Surguja district ·
School
staffing across Surguja ·
…and across Chhattisgarh