Bortara
Nawagarh block · Bemetara
district, Chhattisgarh · PIN 491337
· village code 441768
Population 2011
1,646
Census of India
Population 2020
2,015
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+22.4%
369 people · 2.3% a year
Households
605
+89.1% vs 320 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,646
Male / female
826 / 820
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
993
Children aged 0–6
291
Literacy rate
49.1%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
69 / 0
Working population
823
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
99.5%
Households
320
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 5 km away
No
Piped tap water
<50% habitation covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 5 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 5 km away
No
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
343
Teachers
5
Students per teacher
69
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
None
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
510
Non-farm households
95
Share of households farming, 2020
84%
Net sown area
398 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
398 / 162 / 0
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Bortara panchayat, Nawagarh 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
₹4.16 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹7.74 lakh
Received directly
₹12.30 lakh
Spent
₹21.80 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹2.41 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹1.98 lakh · received ₹3.10 lakh · spent ₹8.00 lakh · left ₹6,619
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹2.18 lakh · received ₹4.65 lakh · spent ₹13.80 lakh · left ₹2.34 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
21.9044, 81.6049 —
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