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By population, Borgaon ranks #38 of 112 villages in Daundi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Borgaon is a village of 994 people in 221 households (Census 2011) in Daundi tehsil, Balod district, Chhattisgarh, the 38th-largest of 112 villages in Daundi tehsil. Literacy is 70%, 2 points above the tehsil average of 67% and the sex ratio is 1,024 women per 1,000 men. It lies 74 km from the Balod district centre, 47 km from Antagarh railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 491230; the LGD village code is 443292. The nearest hospital or health centre is Govt. Hospital Keshkal, 6 km away. The sarpanch is DEVKI BAI, and the village votes in Sanjari Balod assembly constituency, represented by MLA Sangeeta Sinha. The population is estimated at 1,172 in 2026, up 18% 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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