Bhand observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
Temples near Bhand
Named places of worship on record
By population, Bhand ranks #59 of 97 villages in Berla mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bhand is a village of 965 people in 224 households (Census 2011) in Berla tehsil, Bemetara district, Chhattisgarh, the 59th-largest of 97 villages in Berla tehsil. Literacy is 67%, 8 points above the tehsil average of 58% and the sex ratio is 1,023 women per 1,000 men. It lies 9 km from the Bemetara district centre, 7 km from Lakholi railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 491332, served by Berla post office; the LGD village code is 442343. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital Uparwara, 9 km away. The sarpanch is KAMTA PRASAD VERMA, and the village votes in Arang assembly constituency, represented by MLA Guru Khushwant Saheb. The population is estimated at 1,138 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Bhand →
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.
1 Temple mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
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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