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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
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
ravishankar gupta
Contact: 96****8898
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- LGD code
- 435000
- Pincode
- 496001
- Post office
- Chakradharnagar
- Population
- 709
- Households
- 185
- Literacy rate
- 76.7%
- Sex ratio
- 953 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 430
Census 2011 · in context
How Keshala compares
By population, Keshala ranks #78 of 147 villages in Pusour mandal.
Literacy rate
%
76.7%
+6.4% vs mandal average
- Keshala
- 76.7%
- Pusour mandal
- 70.3%
- Raigarh district
- 63.7%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
953
−37 vs mandal average
- Keshala
- 953
- Pusour mandal
- 990
Household size
people per home
3.8
Same as the mandal average
- Keshala
- 3.8
- Pusour mandal
- 3.8
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Keshala at a glance
Keshala is a village of 709 people in 185 households (Census 2011) in Pusour tehsil, Raigarh district, Chhattisgarh, the 78th-largest of 147 villages in Pusour tehsil. Literacy is 77%, 6 points above the tehsil average of 70% and the sex ratio is 953 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 496001, served by Chakradharnagar post office; the LGD village code is 435000. The sarpanch is ravishankar gupta, and the village votes in Kasdol assembly constituency, represented by MLA Sandeep Sahu. The population is estimated at 836 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Keshala
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- Yes
- Primary school
- 1
- Middle school
- 1
- Secondary school
- 0
- Senior secondary
- 0
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 0
- Health sub-centre
- 0
- 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
- RAIGARH
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 12
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 12
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 10
- All-weather road
- No
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- KESHALA
- Total area (ha)
- 168.6
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 44.49
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Keshala
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Keshala
- LGD code
- 435000
- Pincode
- 496001
- Post office
- Chakradharnagar
- Population (Census 2011)
- 709
- Population (projected 2026)
- 836
- Households
- 185
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 953
- Literacy rate
- 76.7%
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Janjgir-Champa
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Kasdol
- Member of Parliament
- Kamlesh Jangde
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Sandeep Sahu
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- ravishankar gupta
- Block / Mandal
- Pusour
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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
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-17
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
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