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By population, Sontara ranks #43 of 69 villages in Kharora mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sontara is a village of 1,084 people in 227 households (Census 2011) in Kharora tehsil, Raipur district, Chhattisgarh, the 43rd-largest of 69 villages in Kharora tehsil. Literacy is 66%, 5 points above the tehsil average, and the sex ratio is 996 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 493225, served by Kharora post office; the LGD village code is 444975. The sarpanch is SUNANDA VERMA, and the village votes in Baloda Bazar assembly constituency, represented by Tank Ram Verma. The population is estimated at 1,278 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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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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