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Protected areas, tribal land rights and community resistance: The conflict inside Chhattisgarh's Udanti Sitanadi Tiger Reserve
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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Basin is a village in Malkharoda mandal, Sakti district, Chhattisgarh state, with a population of 1,278 across 241 households. The village has a literacy rate of 56.3% and is located at coordinates 21.779°N, 83.001°E.
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Krishno Das Mahant
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- LGD code
- 437319
- Pincode
- 495691
- Post office
- Malkharoda
- Population
- 1,278
- Households
- 241
- Literacy rate
- 56.3%
- Sex ratio
- 928 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 819
- Distance to district centre
- 50 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 6 km
- Distance to Raipur
- 153 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 559 km
- Nearest railway station
- test sation · 22 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Govt Hospital DABHARA · 7 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Basin compares
By population, Basin ranks #27 of 61 villages in Malkharoda mandal.
Literacy rate
%
56.3%
−4.6% vs mandal average
- Basin
- 56.3%
- Malkharoda mandal
- 60.9%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
928
−85 vs mandal average
- Basin
- 928
- Malkharoda mandal
- 1,013
Household size
people per home
5.3
+0.9 vs mandal average
- Basin
- 5.3
- Malkharoda mandal
- 4.4
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Basin at a glance
Basin is a village of 1,278 people in 241 households (Census 2011) in Malkharoda tehsil, Sakti district, Chhattisgarh, the 27th-largest of 61 villages in Malkharoda tehsil. Literacy is 56%, 5 points below the tehsil average of 61% and the sex ratio is 928 women per 1,000 men. It lies 50 km from the Sakti district centre, 22 km from test sation railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 495691, served by Malkharoda post office; the LGD village code is 437319. The nearest hospital or health centre is Govt Hospital DABHARA, 7 km away. The sarpanch is Krishno Das Mahant. The population is estimated at 1,507 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Basin
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- No
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- Yes
- Power hours (winter)
- 8
- Primary school
- 1
- Middle school
- 0
- 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
- Yes
- 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
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- SAKTI
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 37
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 81
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 15
- All-weather road
- No
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- BASIN
- Total area (ha)
- 207.57
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 86
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Basin
- LGD code
- 437319
- Pincode
- 495691
- Post office
- Malkharoda
- Population (Census 2011)
- 1,278
- Population (projected 2026)
- 1,507
- Households
- 241
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 928
- Literacy rate
- 56.3%
- Coordinates
- 21.77866°N, 83.00089°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Janjgir-Champa
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Jaijaipur
- Member of Parliament
- Kamlesh Jangde
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Krishno Das Mahant
- Block / Mandal
- Malkharoda
- Nearest railway station
- Jharadih (25.1 km)
Getting there
How to reach Basin
Distance to cities · straight line
- Raipur153 kmcapital
- Kolkata559 km
- Hyderabad680 km
- Delhi957 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationtest sation22 km
- Hospital / PHCGovt Hospital DABHARA7 km
- ATM / bankPNB atm25 km
- Petrol pumpPetrol Station Sakti27 km
- CollegeDr. C. V. Raman University26 km
- Police stationPolice Station Sakti27 km
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View all 60+ →Sources & freshness
- 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
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)