Pendra observes Bastar Dussehra on Monday, 21 September 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
By population, Pendra ranks #14 of 54 villages in Fingeshwar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Pendra is a village of 1,307 people in 290 households (Census 2011) in Fingeshwar tehsil, Gariyaband district, Chhattisgarh, the 14th-largest of 54 villages in Fingeshwar tehsil. Literacy is 60%, 4 points below the tehsil average of 64% and the sex ratio is 998 women per 1,000 men. It lies 237 km from the Gariyaband district centre, 7 km from Pendra Road railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 493992, served by Phingeshwar post office; the LGD village code is 444812. The nearest hospital or health centre is Igntu Hospital, 21 km away. The sarpanch is Dropati Sahu, and the village votes in Baloda Bazar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Tank Ram Verma. The population is estimated at 1,541 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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