Protected areas, tribal land rights and community resistance: The conflict inside Chhattisgarh's Udanti Sitanadi Tiger Reserve
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Lukaukapa observes Bastar Dussehra on Monday, 21 September 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
The principal temple recorded for Sargaon mandal is The Sheorinarayana Temple, together with ruined brick temples in the same compound and the inscription built into the wall of the Chandrachuda temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Lukaukapa itself.
By population, Lukaukapa ranks #44 of 51 villages in Sargaon mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Lukaukapa is a village of 528 people in 104 households (Census 2011) in Sargaon tehsil, Mungeli district, Chhattisgarh, the 44th-largest of 51 villages in Sargaon tehsil. Literacy is 53%, 1 points below the tehsil average of 54% and the sex ratio is 913 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 495224, served by Bilha post office; the LGD village code is 438461. The sarpanch is anchal devprasad satnami, and the village votes in Kasdol assembly constituency, represented by MLA Sandeep Sahu. The population is estimated at 623 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Mohdi →
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.
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.
Centred on Sargaon mandal
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