Podi observes Bastar Dussehra on Monday, 21 September 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
The principal temple recorded for Ramanujnagar mandal is gayatri mandir. No temple of this dedication is on record within Podi itself.
By population, Podi ranks #40 of 76 villages in Ramanujnagar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Podi is a village of 1,466 people in 311 households (Census 2011) in Ramanujnagar tehsil, Surajpur district, Chhattisgarh, the 40th-largest of 76 villages in Ramanujnagar tehsil. Literacy is 59%, 9 points above the tehsil average of 50% and the sex ratio is 904 women per 1,000 men. It lies 330 km from the Surajpur district centre, 22 km from Veeraghattam, the nearest town, 20 km from Gumada railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 497333, served by Ramanujnagar post office; the LGD village code is 432819. The nearest hospital or health centre is Hospital, 7 km away. The sarpanch is RAM BAI, and the village votes in Rajim assembly constituency, represented by MLA Rohit Sahu. The population is estimated at 800 in 2026, down 45% since the 2011 Census.
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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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