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By population, Gourtek ranks #17 of 225 villages in Basna mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Gourtek is a village of 1,446 people in 412 households (Census 2011) in Basna tehsil, Mahasamund district, Chhattisgarh, the 17th-largest of 225 villages in Basna tehsil. Literacy is 67%, 6 points above the tehsil average, and the sex ratio is 975 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 493558, served by Saraipali post office; the LGD village code is 445742. The sarpanch is MEENA NAYAK, and the village votes in Sihawa assembly constituency, represented by Ambika Markam. The population is estimated at 1,705 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Gourtak →
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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