Sikosa

Gunderdehi block · Balod district, Chhattisgarh · PIN 491222 · village code 442861

Population 2011

3,139

Census of India

Population 2020

5,256

Mission Antyodaya survey

Change

+67.4%

2,117 people · 5.9% a year

Households

856

+16.9% vs 732 in 2011

Census 2011

Total population

3,139

Male / female

1,535 / 1,604

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

1,045

Children aged 0–6

361

Literacy rate

70.9%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

1,196 / 77

Working population

1,472

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

71.9%

Households

732

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school

Yes

Piped tap water

50 to 100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Bus

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank

Yes

Primary health centre

Sub Centre

Anganwadi

Yes

Internet

Yes

Common service centre

Separately located

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

144

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Yes

Playground

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

754

Non-farm households

102

Share of households farming, 2020

88%

Net sown area

335 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

335 / 103 / 10

Main irrigation source

Canals

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Sikosa panchayat, Gunderdehi 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

₹7.49 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹15.00 lakh

Received directly

₹4.85 lakh

Spent

₹21.89 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹5.45 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹3.04 lakh · received ₹5.99 lakh · spent ₹10.05 lakh · left ₹89,682

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹4.44 lakh · received ₹9.01 lakh · spent ₹11.84 lakh · left ₹4.56 lakh

Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied together make up the totals above.

Location

20.8829, 81.2855 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

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