Sonpuri observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
By population, Sonpuri ranks #14 of 31 villages in Korba mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sonpuri is a village of 1,224 people in 341 households (Census 2011) in Korba tehsil, Korba district, Chhattisgarh, the 14th-largest of 31 villages in Korba tehsil. Literacy is 55%, 6 points below the tehsil average of 61% and the sex ratio is 1,064 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 495684, served by Balco Nagar Korba post office; the LGD village code is 436316. The nearest hospital or health centre is Rural Hospital, Salekasa, 7 km away. The sarpanch is SARASWATI KANWAR, and the village votes in Kurud assembly constituency, represented by MLA Ajay Chandrakar. The population is estimated at 1,443 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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