Barra observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
By population, Barra ranks #55 of 82 villages in Pasan mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Barra is a village of 554 people in 114 households (Census 2011) in Pasan tehsil, Korba district, Chhattisgarh, the 55th-largest of 82 villages in Pasan tehsil. Literacy is 38%, 6 points below the tehsil average of 45% and the sex ratio is 1,164 women per 1,000 men. It lies 100 km from the Korba district centre, 10 km from demo railway railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 495448, served by Pondi-Uproda post office; the LGD village code is 436033. The nearest hospital or health centre is bhatiya hospital, 11 km away. The sarpanch is Sushila, and the village votes in Kasdol assembly constituency, represented by MLA Sandeep Sahu. The population is estimated at 653 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Hardewa →
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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