From Chandalpur To Chandanpur: Chhattisgarh Village Sheds 'Embarrassing' Name After Years Of Struggle
Reported by ETV Bharat.
By population, Deurgaon ranks #13 of 70 villages in Tokapal mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Deurgaon is a village of 1,791 people in 445 households (Census 2011) in Tokapal tehsil, Bastar district, Chhattisgarh, the 13th-largest of 70 villages in Tokapal tehsil. Literacy is 42%, about the same as the tehsil average of 41% and the sex ratio is 1,052 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 494001, served by Dharampura post office; the LGD village code is 449517. The sarpanch is MANDHAR KASHYAP, and the village votes in Chitrakot assembly constituency, represented by MLA Vinayak Goyal. The population is estimated at 2,112 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.
Centred on Tokapal mandal
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