Margaon
Dongargaon block · Rajnandgaon
district, Chhattisgarh · PIN 491661
· village code 441118
Population 2011
1,769
Census of India
Population 2020
2,235
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+26.3%
466 people · 2.6% a year
Households
427
+28.6% vs 332 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,769
Male / female
848 / 921
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,086
Children aged 0–6
284
Literacy rate
62.9%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
338 / 506
Working population
848
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
93.3%
Households
332
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water
100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport nearest 2 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 5 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
173
Teachers
6
Students per teacher
29
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
427
Non-farm households
0
Share of households farming, 2020
100%
Net sown area
345 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
345 / 43 / 0
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Maargaon panchayat, Dongargaon 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
₹9.95 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹7.70 lakh
Received directly
₹3.05 lakh
Spent
₹13.65 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹7.06 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹7.48 lakh · received ₹3.08 lakh · spent ₹7.31 lakh · left ₹3.88 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹2.47 lakh · received ₹4.62 lakh · spent ₹6.34 lakh · left ₹3.17 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
21.0353, 80.8447 —
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