Umaria observes Bastar Dussehra on Monday, 21 September 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
Temples near Umaria
Named places of worship on record
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 Umaria itself.
By population, Umaria ranks #18 of 51 villages in Sargaon mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Umaria is a village of 1,191 people in 285 households (Census 2011) in Sargaon tehsil, Mungeli district, Chhattisgarh, the 18th-largest of 51 villages in Sargaon tehsil. Literacy is 51%, 3 points below the tehsil average of 54% and the sex ratio is 879 women per 1,000 men. It lies 289 km from the Mungeli district centre, 1 km from Umaria railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 495224, served by Bilha post office; the LGD village code is 438463. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government hospital Umaria Urban, <1 km away. The sarpanch is mohar das kosle, and the village votes in Kasdol assembly constituency, represented by MLA Sandeep Sahu. The population is estimated at 1,404 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Umariya →
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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