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September 2026
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Chhattisgarh sugar mill distributes 50 kg sugar to over 11,000 shareholder farmers at Rs 30/kg
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Mapped via ECI-published constituency boundary (mandal centroid containment, Datameet)
Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
DR
Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
DR RAJESH KUMAR BANCHHOR
Contact: 96****6072
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- LGD code
- 442731
- Pincode
- 491223
- Post office
- Gunderdehi
- Population
- 1,189
- Households
- 246
- Literacy rate
- 68.4%
- Sex ratio
- 1135 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 593
Census 2011 · in context
How Karela compares
By population, Karela ranks #83 of 142 villages in Patan mandal.
Literacy rate
%
68.4%
+0.3% vs mandal average
- Karela
- 68.4%
- Patan mandal
- 68.1%
- Durg district
- 68.9%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,135
+137 vs mandal average
- Karela
- 1,135
- Patan mandal
- 998
Household size
people per home
4.8
+0.1 vs mandal average
- Karela
- 4.8
- Patan mandal
- 4.7
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Karela at a glance
Karela is a village of 1,189 people in 246 households (Census 2011) in Patan tehsil, Durg district, Chhattisgarh, the 83rd-largest of 142 villages in Patan tehsil. Literacy is 68%, about the same as the tehsil average of 68% and the sex ratio is 1,135 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 491223, served by Gunderdehi post office; the LGD village code is 442731. The sarpanch is DR RAJESH KUMAR BANCHHOR, and the village votes in Abhanpur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Indra Kumar Sahu. The population is estimated at 1,402 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Karela
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- No
- Primary school
- 1
- Middle school
- 1
- Secondary school
- 0
- Senior secondary
- 0
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 0
- Health sub-centre
- 1
- Community health centre
- 0
- Dispensary
- 0
- Veterinary hospital
- 0
- Post office
- Yes
- Sub post office
- Yes
- Commercial bank
- No
- Cooperative bank
- No
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- No
- Private bus service
- Yes
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- Yes
- Mandi / regular market
- Yes
- Weekly haat
- Yes
- Nearest statutory town
- PATAN
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 17
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 54
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 17
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- KARELA
- Total area (ha)
- 420.24
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 274.54
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Karela
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Karela
- LGD code
- 442731
- Pincode
- 491223
- Post office
- Gunderdehi
- Population (Census 2011)
- 1,189
- Population (projected 2026)
- 1,402
- Households
- 246
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1135
- Literacy rate
- 68.4%
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Raipur
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Abhanpur
- Member of Parliament
- Brijmohan Agrawal
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Indra Kumar Sahu
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- DR RAJESH KUMAR BANCHHOR
- Block / Mandal
- Patan
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records, 2026-05-14
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-16
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)