Balenga

Bastar block · Bastar district, Chhattisgarh · PIN 494222 · village code 449370

Change since 2011 is not available for this village. The 2020 Mission Antyodaya survey recorded a population of 2,356 — exactly the Census 2011 figure. That happens in about 15% of villages nationally, where the surveyor appears to have carried the old number forward rather than counting afresh. Showing “0% growth” here would be reporting a number nobody measured, so we don't. How we detect this.

Population (Census 2011)

2,356

Households 2020

536

surveyed separately, so usable

Census 2011

Total population

2,356

Male / female

1,149 / 1,207

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

1,050

Children aged 0–6

327

Literacy rate

50.0%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

99 / 1,776

Working population

1,100

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

91.5%

Households

525

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

Yes

Primary health centre

CHC

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

291

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

400

Non-farm households

136

Share of households farming, 2020

75%

Net sown area

300 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

300 / 150 / 50

Main irrigation source

Other

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Balenga panchayat, Bastar 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

₹16.07 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹10.34 lakh

Received directly

₹8.07 lakh

Spent

₹22.44 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹12.05 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹3.82 lakh · received ₹4.19 lakh · spent ₹11.27 lakh · left ₹3.31 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹12.25 lakh · received ₹6.15 lakh · spent ₹11.17 lakh · left ₹8.73 lakh

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

Location

19.1722, 81.9697 — view on OpenStreetMap

Nearby villages

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How this village compares

Biggest population changes in Bastar district · School staffing across Bastar · …and across Chhattisgarh