Sankra
Rajnandgaon block · Rajnandgaon
district, Chhattisgarh · PIN 491441
· village code 440826
Population 2011
2,577
Census of India
Population 2020
3,000
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+16.4%
423 people · 1.7% a year
Households
700
+21.3% vs 577 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
2,577
Male / female
1,325 / 1,252
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
945
Children aged 0–6
347
Literacy rate
64.0%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
517 / 12
Working population
1,458
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
72.1%
Households
577
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water
100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 5 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
184
Teachers
5
Students per teacher
37
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
454
Non-farm households
245
Share of households farming, 2020
65%
Net sown area
197 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
197 / 29 / 1
Main irrigation source
Canals
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Sankra panchayat, Rajnandgaon 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
₹8.30 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹11.32 lakh
Received directly
₹3.49 lakh
Spent
₹16.11 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹6.99 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹3.16 lakh · received ₹4.52 lakh · spent ₹6.48 lakh · left ₹3.60 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹5.14 lakh · received ₹6.80 lakh · spent ₹9.63 lakh · left ₹3.39 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
21.1532, 81.2011 —
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