Lead story
18
September 2026
newsSTATE
Chhattisgarh teacher carries infant across swollen river to reach school
Reported by The News Mill.
By Resident0 likes0 comments
Represented by
Mapped via ECI-published constituency boundary (mandal centroid containment, Datameet)
Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
UB
Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
usha bai
Contact: 78****2201
Spotted a stale sarpanch record? Sign in and a verified resident of Bharka can update it.
- LGD code
- 444138
- Pincode
- 493332
- Post office
- Baloda Bazar
- Population
- 304
- Households
- 65
- Literacy rate
- 46.1%
- Sex ratio
- 1040 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 171
Census 2011 · in context
How Bharka compares
By population, Bharka ranks #67 of 89 villages in Kasdol mandal.
Literacy rate
%
46.1%
−13.1% vs mandal average
- Bharka
- 46.1%
- Kasdol mandal
- 59.2%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,040
+28 vs mandal average
- Bharka
- 1,040
- Kasdol mandal
- 1,012
Household size
people per home
4.7
Same as the mandal average
- Bharka
- 4.7
- Kasdol mandal
- 4.7
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bharka at a glance
Bharka is a village of 304 people in 65 households (Census 2011) in Kasdol tehsil, Balodabazar-Bhatapara district, Chhattisgarh, the 67th-largest of 89 villages in Kasdol tehsil. Literacy is 46%, 13 points below the tehsil average of 59% and the sex ratio is 1,040 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 493332, served by Baloda Bazar post office; the LGD village code is 444138. The sarpanch is usha bai, and the village votes in Raipur Rural assembly constituency, represented by MLA Motilal Sahu. The population is estimated at 358 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Bagar →
Complete this village · 4/7
Add what you know →- Sarpanch name
- Panchayat contact
- Pincode
- About the villageA few sentences on history and livelihood
- A photoTemple, school, fields — anything from the village
- A festival or jatara
- A notable personTeacher, soldier, sportsperson, entrepreneur
Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Bharka
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- Yes
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- No
- Power hours (summer)
- 12
- Power hours (winter)
- 14
- Primary school
- 1
- Middle school
- 0
- Secondary school
- 0
- Senior secondary
- 0
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 0
- Health sub-centre
- 0
- Community health centre
- 0
- Dispensary
- 0
- Veterinary hospital
- 0
- Post office
- No
- Sub post office
- No
- Commercial bank
- No
- Cooperative bank
- No
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- No
- Private bus service
- No
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- No
- Anganwadi centre
- No
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- KASDOL
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 10
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 122
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 10
- All-weather road
- No
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- BAGAR
- Total area (ha)
- 692.9
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 50
- Forest area (ha)
- 586.89
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Bharka
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Bharka
- LGD code
- 444138
- Pincode
- 493332
- Post office
- Baloda Bazar
- Population (Census 2011)
- 304
- Population (projected 2026)
- 358
- Households
- 65
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1040
- Literacy rate
- 46.1%
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Raipur
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Raipur Rural
- Member of Parliament
- Brijmohan Agrawal
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Motilal Sahu
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- usha bai
- Block / Mandal
- Kasdol
Same pincode
Villages sharing pincode 493332
Same name, different place
Other villages named Bharka
Looking for a different Bharka? 6 other villages share this name across India. All villages named Bharka →
Other villages in the same gram panchayat as Bharka
Other villages in Kasdol mandal
View all 60+ →Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)