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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
Shivpal Bhagat
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- LGD code
- 434816
- Pincode
- 496107
- Post office
- Tamnar
- Population
- 535
- Households
- 101
- Literacy rate
- 50.8%
- Sex ratio
- 1050 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 187
- Distance to district centre
- 80 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 86 km
- Distance to Raipur
- 126 km
- Distance to Hyderabad
- 575 km
- Nearest railway station
- Lakhna · 4 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government Hospital, Tarbod · 9 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Sarasmal compares
By population, Sarasmal ranks #70 of 117 villages in Tamnar mandal.
Literacy rate
%
50.8%
−13.0% vs mandal average
- Sarasmal
- 50.8%
- Tamnar mandal
- 63.8%
- Raigarh district
- 63.7%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,050
+64 vs mandal average
- Sarasmal
- 1,050
- Tamnar mandal
- 986
Household size
people per home
5.3
+1.2 vs mandal average
- Sarasmal
- 5.3
- Tamnar mandal
- 4.1
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sarasmal at a glance
Sarasmal is a village of 535 people in 101 households (Census 2011) in Tamnar tehsil, Raigarh district, Chhattisgarh, the 70th-largest of 117 villages in Tamnar tehsil. Literacy is 51%, 13 points below the tehsil average of 64% and the sex ratio is 1,050 women per 1,000 men. It lies 80 km from the Raigarh district centre, 4 km from Lakhna railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 496107, served by Tamnar post office; the LGD village code is 434816. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Tarbod, 9 km away. The sarpanch is Shivpal Bhagat, and the village votes in Kasdol assembly constituency, represented by MLA Sandeep Sahu. The population is estimated at 631 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Sarasmal
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- Yes
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- Yes
- Power hours (summer)
- 15
- Power hours (winter)
- 16
- 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
- Yes
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- Yes
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- GHARGHODA
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 20
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 50
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 15
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- SARASMAL
- Total area (ha)
- 292.58
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 1.22
- Forest area (ha)
- 33.81
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Sarasmal
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Sarasmal
- LGD code
- 434816
- Pincode
- 496107
- Post office
- Tamnar
- Population (Census 2011)
- 535
- Population (projected 2026)
- 631
- Households
- 101
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1050
- Literacy rate
- 50.8%
- Coordinates
- 20.69513°N, 82.68476°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Janjgir-Champa
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Kasdol
- Member of Parliament
- Kamlesh Jangde
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Sandeep Sahu
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Shivpal Bhagat
- Block / Mandal
- Tamnar
Getting there
How to reach Sarasmal
Distance to cities · straight line
- Raipur126 kmcapital
- Hyderabad575 km
- Kolkata623 km
- Chennai885 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationLakhna4 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment Hospital, Tarbod9 km
- Petrol pumpBharat Petroleum29 km
- CollegeK.V. Degree College, Kantabanji37 km
- Police stationchuura police thana51 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
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
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