Kotara
Baramkela block · Raigarh
district, Chhattisgarh · PIN 496551
· village code 435673
Population 2011
682
Census of India
Population 2020
736
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+7.9%
54 people · 0.8% a year
Households
210
+4.5% vs 201 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
682
Male / female
334 / 348
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,042
Children aged 0–6
76
Literacy rate
65.4%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
47 / 114
Working population
345
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
93.6%
Households
201
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 2 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 1 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 10 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
22
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
7
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
89
Non-farm households
50
Share of households farming, 2020
64%
Net sown area
99 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
99 / 46 / 22
Main irrigation source
Canals
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Kotara panchayat, Baramkela 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
₹3.17 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹5.34 lakh
Received directly
₹1.31 lakh
Spent
₹2.51 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹7.31 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹1.28 lakh · received ₹1.34 lakh · spent ₹1.24 lakh · left ₹2.69 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹1.89 lakh · received ₹4.00 lakh · spent ₹1.28 lakh · left ₹4.62 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
21.5980, 83.2617 —
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