Ratenga observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
By population, Ratenga ranks #16 of 57 villages in Bhanpuri mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Ratenga is a village of 2,285 people in 507 households (Census 2011) in Bhanpuri tehsil, Bastar district, Chhattisgarh, the 16th-largest of 57 villages in Bhanpuri tehsil. Literacy is 26%, 16 points below the tehsil average of 43% and the sex ratio is 1,020 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 494010, served by Lohandiguda post office; the LGD village code is 449296. The sarpanch is SUNIL KASHYAP, and the village votes in Keshkal assembly constituency, represented by MLA Neelkanth Tekam. The population is estimated at 2,694 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Ratenga →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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