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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Sanjay Nagar is a village in Latori mandal, Surajpur district, Chhattisgarh with a population of 1,324 spread across 295 households and a literacy rate of 68.9%. The village has access to two railway stations and one hospital.
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
SUMARI
Contact: 93****8140
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- LGD code
- 432576
- Pincode
- 497229
- Post office
- Surajpur
- Population
- 1,324
- Households
- 295
- Literacy rate
- 68.9%
- Sex ratio
- 970 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 437
- Distance to district centre
- 196 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 205 km
- Distance to Raipur
- 208 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 682 km
- Nearest railway station
- Chhulha · 2 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Ashirwad Hospital Critical Care & Trauma Center · 3 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Sanjay Nagar compares
By population, Sanjay Nagar ranks #27 of 62 villages in Latori mandal.
Literacy rate
%
68.9%
+14.6% vs mandal average
Sanjay Nagar68.9%
Latori mandal54.3%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
970
−8 vs mandal average
Sanjay Nagar970
Latori mandal978
Household size
people per home
4.5
−0.1 vs mandal average
Sanjay Nagar4.5
Latori mandal4.6
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sanjay Nagar at a glance
Sanjay Nagar is a village of 1,324 people in 295 households (Census 2011) in Latori tehsil, Surajpur district, Chhattisgarh, the 27th-largest of 62 villages in Latori tehsil. Literacy is 69%, 15 points above the tehsil average of 54% and the sex ratio is 970 women per 1,000 men. It lies 196 km from the Surajpur district centre, 2 km from Chhulha railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 497229, served by Surajpur post office; the LGD village code is 432576. The nearest hospital or health centre is Ashirwad Hospital Critical Care & Trauma Center, 3 km away. The sarpanch is SUMARI, and the village votes in Arang assembly constituency, represented by MLA Guru Khushwant Saheb. The population is estimated at 1,561 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Sanjay Nagar
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- Yes
- Primary school
- 2
- 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
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- AMBIKAPUR
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 10
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 10
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 35
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- MAHAVIRPUR
- Total area (ha)
- 375.38
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 29.2
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Sanjay Nagar
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Sanjay Nagar
- LGD code
- 432576
- Pincode
- 497229
- Post office
- Surajpur
- Population (Census 2011)
- 1,324
- Population (projected 2026)
- 1,561
- Households
- 295
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 970
- Literacy rate
- 68.9%
- Coordinates
- 23.11800°N, 81.73860°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Raipur
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Arang
- Member of Parliament
- Brijmohan Agrawal
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Guru Khushwant Saheb
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- SUMARI
- Block / Mandal
- Latori
- Nearest railway station
- Chhulha (1.7 km)
Getting there
How to reach Sanjay Nagar
Distance to cities · straight line
- Raipur208 kmcapital
- Kolkata682 km
- Hyderabad722 km
- Delhi761 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationChhulha2 km
- Hospital / PHCAshirwad Hospital Critical Care & Trauma Center3 km
- ATM / bankState Bank of India4 km
- Petrol pumpHP Petro Pump24 km
Nearest to the village
- Railway station
- Chhulha1.7 km
- Health centre
- Ashirwad Hospital Critical Care & Trauma Center3.2 km
Places of worship · within 5 km
Temples & shrines near Sanjay Nagar
1 Temple mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
- 🛕Shankar MandirTemple4.1 km ↗
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Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-09-23
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-22
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)