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Chhattisgarh sugar mill distributes 50 kg sugar to over 11,000 shareholder farmers at Rs 30/kg
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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Kharora is a village in Basna mandal, Mahasamund district, Chhattisgarh state. It has a population of 956 people across 216 households with a literacy rate of 59.9%.
RD
Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
REETABHARAT DAS
Contact: 92****6117
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- LGD code
- 445757
- Pincode
- 493554
- Post office
- Basna
- Population
- 956
- Households
- 216
- Literacy rate
- 59.9%
- Sex ratio
- 1025 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 491
- Distance to district centre
- 53 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 85 km
- Distance to Raipur
- 35 km
- Distance to Hyderabad
- 574 km
- Nearest railway station
- Silyari · 18 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- primary government hospital Bangoli · 8 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Kharora compares
By population, Kharora ranks #52 of 225 villages in Basna mandal.
Literacy rate
%
59.9%
−0.5% vs mandal average
- Kharora
- 59.9%
- Basna mandal
- 60.4%
- Mahasamund district
- 61.8%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,025
+2 vs mandal average
- Kharora
- 1,025
- Basna mandal
- 1,023
Household size
people per home
4.4
+0.3 vs mandal average
- Kharora
- 4.4
- Basna mandal
- 4.1
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kharora at a glance
Kharora is a village of 956 people in 216 households (Census 2011) in Basna tehsil, Mahasamund district, Chhattisgarh, the 52nd-largest of 225 villages in Basna tehsil. Literacy is 60%, about the same as the tehsil average of 60% and the sex ratio is 1,025 women per 1,000 men. It lies 53 km from the Mahasamund district centre, 18 km from Silyari railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 493554, served by Basna post office; the LGD village code is 445757. The nearest hospital or health centre is primary government hospital Bangoli, 8 km away. The sarpanch is REETABHARAT DAS, and the village votes in Sihawa assembly constituency, represented by MLA Ambika Markam. The population is estimated at 1,127 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Kharora
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- No
- Primary school
- 1
- Middle school
- 1
- Secondary school
- 0
- Senior secondary
- 0
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 0
- Health sub-centre
- 1
- Community health centre
- 0
- Dispensary
- 0
- Veterinary hospital
- 0
- Post office
- No
- Sub post office
- No
- Commercial bank
- No
- Cooperative bank
- No
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- No
- Private bus service
- No
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- BASNA
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 11
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 146
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 11
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- KHARORA
- Total area (ha)
- 324.78
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 30
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Kharora
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Kharora
- LGD code
- 445757
- Pincode
- 493554
- Post office
- Basna
- Population (Census 2011)
- 956
- Population (projected 2026)
- 1,127
- Households
- 216
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1025
- Literacy rate
- 59.9%
- Coordinates
- 21.40041°N, 81.92638°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Kanker
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Sihawa
- Member of Parliament
- Bhojraj Nag
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Ambika Markam
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- REETABHARAT DAS
- Block / Mandal
- Basna
Getting there
How to reach Kharora
Distance to cities · straight line
- Raipur35 kmcapital
- Hyderabad574 km
- Kolkata676 km
- Delhi932 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationSilyari18 km
- Hospital / PHCprimary government hospital Bangoli8 km
- ATM / bankpnb18 km
- Petrol pumpHP Petrol Pump31 km
- Collegeस्पेक्ट्रम कॉलेज़ ऑफ एजुकेशन, नरदहा, रायपुर19 km
- Police stationDharsiva police station26 km
Places of worship · within 5 km
Temples & shrines near Kharora
1 Temple mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
- 🛕माँ महामाया मंदिर नहरडीहTemple4.4 km ↗
Education · within 5 km
Schools & colleges near Kharora
1 mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors, nearest first. Government school lists (UDISE) will replace this when loaded.
- 🏫शासकीय प्राथमिक शाला नहरडीहSchool4.4 km ↗
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records, 2026-05-14
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-16
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