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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Keshla is a village in Dipka mandal, Korba district, Chhattisgarh. It has a population of 713 across 175 households with a literacy rate of 60%.
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
BUDHWAR SINGH KANWAR
Contact: 98****5874
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- LGD code
- 435829
- Pincode
- 495454
- Post office
- Kusmunda Colliery
- Population
- 713
- Households
- 175
- Literacy rate
- 60%
- Sex ratio
- 1031 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 384
- Distance to district centre
- 95 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 123 km
- Distance to Raipur
- 121 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 593 km
- Nearest railway station
- demo railway · 15 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- bhatiya hospital · 16 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Keshla compares
By population, Keshla ranks #26 of 48 villages in Dipka mandal.
Literacy rate
%
60.0%
−4.6% vs mandal average
- Keshla
- 60.0%
- Dipka mandal
- 64.6%
- Korba district
- 62.1%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,031
+38 vs mandal average
- Keshla
- 1,031
- Dipka mandal
- 993
Household size
people per home
4.1
−0.1 vs mandal average
- Keshla
- 4.1
- Dipka mandal
- 4.2
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Keshla at a glance
Keshla is a village of 713 people in 175 households (Census 2011) in Dipka tehsil, Korba district, Chhattisgarh, the 26th-largest of 48 villages in Dipka tehsil. Literacy is 60%, 5 points below the tehsil average of 65% and the sex ratio is 1,031 women per 1,000 men. It lies 95 km from the Korba district centre, 15 km from demo railway railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 495454, served by Kusmunda Colliery post office; the LGD village code is 435829. The nearest hospital or health centre is bhatiya hospital, 16 km away. The sarpanch is BUDHWAR SINGH KANWAR , and the village votes in Abhanpur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Indra Kumar Sahu. The population is estimated at 841 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Keshla
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- Yes
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- No
- Power hours (summer)
- 6
- Power hours (winter)
- 7
- Primary school
- 2
- 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
- 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
- Yes
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- KORBA
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 30
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 30
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 45
- All-weather road
- No
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- KESHLA
- Total area (ha)
- 160.88
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 1
- Forest area (ha)
- 6.58
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Keshla
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Keshla
- LGD code
- 435829
- Pincode
- 495454
- Post office
- Kusmunda Colliery
- Population (Census 2011)
- 713
- Population (projected 2026)
- 841
- Households
- 175
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1031
- Literacy rate
- 60.0%
- Coordinates
- 21.74744°N, 82.67311°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Raipur
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Abhanpur
- Member of Parliament
- Brijmohan Agrawal
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Indra Kumar Sahu
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- BUDHWAR SINGH KANWAR
- Block / Mandal
- Dipka
Getting there
How to reach Keshla
Distance to cities · straight line
- Raipur121 kmcapital
- Kolkata593 km
- Hyderabad654 km
- Delhi941 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationdemo railway15 km
- Hospital / PHCbhatiya hospital16 km
- Petrol pumpIBP Petrol Station31 km
- CollegeDr. C. V. Raman University42 km
- Police stationPolice Station30 km
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- 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, 2026-09-25
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)