Sonpuri observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
By population, Sonpuri ranks #18 of 48 villages in Dipka mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sonpuri is a village of 902 people in 203 households (Census 2011) in Dipka tehsil, Korba district, Chhattisgarh, the 18th-largest of 48 villages in Dipka tehsil. Literacy is 61%, 4 points below the tehsil average of 65% and the sex ratio is 1,093 women per 1,000 men. It lies 159 km from the Korba district centre, 7 km from Salekasa railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 495454, served by Kusmunda Colliery post office; the LGD village code is 435911. The nearest hospital or health centre is Rural Hospital, Salekasa, 7 km away. The sarpanch is RAMSHILLA BAI, and the village votes in Abhanpur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Indra Kumar Sahu. The population is estimated at 1,063 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Pali →
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.
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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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