Marenga observes Bastar Dussehra on Monday, 21 September 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
Marenga is a village in Lohandiguda mandal, Bastar district, Chhattisgarh with a population of 479 in 95 households. The village has a literacy rate of 11.7% and is located at coordinates 18.738°N, 81.787°E with PIN code 494442.
By population, Marenga ranks #50 of 87 villages in Lohandiguda mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Marenga is a village of 479 people in 95 households (Census 2011) in Lohandiguda tehsil, Bastar district, Chhattisgarh, the 50th-largest of 87 villages in Lohandiguda tehsil. Literacy is 12%, 21 points below the tehsil average of 33% and the sex ratio is 1,021 women per 1,000 men. It lies 62 km from the Bastar district centre, 23 km from Kumhar Sodra railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 494442, served by Tokapal Rajoor post office; the LGD village code is 449185. The nearest hospital or health centre is Tongpal Hospital, 3 km away. The sarpanch is MANI RAM KASHYAP. The population is estimated at 565 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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