Carrying infant, Chhattisgarh teacher wades through swollen river to teach in cut-off village
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Jogipur observes Bastar Dussehra on Monday, 21 September 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
By population, Jogipur ranks #50 of 50 villages in Kota mandal — the smallest.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Jogipur is a village of 241 people in 53 households (Census 2011) in Kota tehsil, Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh, the 50th-largest of 50 villages in Kota tehsil. Literacy is 60%, 4 points above the tehsil average of 56% and the sex ratio is 928 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 495113, served by Kargi Road post office; the LGD village code is 438031. The sarpanch is KAMAL SINGH ARVIND, and the village votes in Baloda Bazar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Tank Ram Verma. The population is estimated at 284 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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