Saloni
Dongarghar block · Rajnandgaon
district, Chhattisgarh · PIN 491445
· village code 440544
Population 2011
1,175
Census of India
Population 2020
1,475
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+25.5%
300 people · 2.6% a year
Households
262
+23.0% vs 213 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,175
Male / female
575 / 600
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,043
Children aged 0–6
126
Literacy rate
66.2%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
2 / 28
Working population
612
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
94.3%
Households
213
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 1 km away
No
Piped tap water
50 to 100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport nearest 1 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 1 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 1 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
90
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
30
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
252
Non-farm households
5
Share of households farming, 2020
98%
Net sown area
287 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
287 / 231 / 2
Main irrigation source
Surface water
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Saloni panchayat, Dongarghar 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
₹5.98 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹7.86 lakh
Received directly
₹1.98 lakh
Spent
₹6.15 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹9.67 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹2.84 lakh · received ₹3.15 lakh · spent ₹1.43 lakh · left ₹4.73 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹3.14 lakh · received ₹4.72 lakh · spent ₹4.72 lakh · left ₹4.94 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
21.2973, 80.9518 —
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