From Chandalpur To Chandanpur: Chhattisgarh Village Sheds 'Embarrassing' Name After Years Of Struggle
Reported by ETV Bharat.
By population, Uraba ranks #32 of 117 villages in Tamnar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Uraba is a village of 1,111 people in 245 households (Census 2011) in Tamnar tehsil, Raigarh district, Chhattisgarh, the 32nd-largest of 117 villages in Tamnar tehsil. Literacy is 56%, 8 points below the tehsil average of 64% and the sex ratio is 1,077 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 496107, served by Tamnar post office; the LGD village code is 434736. The sarpanch is Ramdulari rathia, and the village votes in Kasdol assembly constituency, represented by MLA Sandeep Sahu. The population is estimated at 1,310 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Urba →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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 Tamnar mandal
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