Protected areas, tribal land rights and community resistance: The conflict inside Chhattisgarh's Udanti Sitanadi Tiger Reserve
Reported by Land Conflict Watch.
Bastar Dussehra falls on Monday, 21 September 2026 across Basna and the rest of Chhattisgarh.
14 village centroids, sized by Census 2011 population. Tap a village to open its page.
Centroids from LGD/OSM; the cross marks the mandal centroid. Not a survey map.
Basna is a mandal in Mahasamund district, Chhattisgarh. It comprises 226 revenue villages under 102 gram panchayats. As of Census 2011, the population was 165,272 with a literacy rate of 60.4% and sex ratio of 1023. The mandal recorded 79,116 workers, including 20,017 cultivators and 22,736 agricultural labourers. Approximately 70.6% of households had access to JJM tap water.
Aggregated from village fixtures + OpenStreetMap. Numbers will rise as the LGD + OSM ingest covers more villages in Basna mandal.
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Answers are auto-built from the village's verified record. If something is wrong, residents can correct it after claiming the village.
Reported by Land Conflict Watch.
Reported by ETV Bharat.
Reported by Public TV English.