Lanja observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
By population, Lanja ranks #66 of 95 villages in Arang mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Lanja is a village of 1,101 people in 233 households (Census 2011) in Arang tehsil, Raipur district, Chhattisgarh, the 66th-largest of 95 villages in Arang tehsil. Literacy is 60%, 2 points below the tehsil average of 62% and the sex ratio is 973 women per 1,000 men. It lies 261 km from the Raipur district centre, 43 km from Veeraghattam, the nearest town, 10 km from Kuneru railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 493225, served by Kharora post office; the LGD village code is 444423. The nearest hospital or health centre is Kumaraswamy Kumundan Nursing Home, 21 km away. The sarpanch is CHANDRAPAL MANDALE, and the village votes in Bindranawagarh assembly constituency, represented by MLA Janak Ram Dhruw. The population is estimated at 266 in 2026, down 76% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Lanza →
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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