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Basdila is a village in Chauri Chaura mandal, Gorakhpur district, Uttar Pradesh, with a population of 1,868 across 285 households. The village has a literacy rate of 69% and postal code 273202.
By population, Basdila ranks #83 of 216 villages in Chauri Chaura mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Basdila is a village of 1,868 people in 285 households (Census 2011) in Chauri Chaura tehsil, Gorakhpur district, Uttar Pradesh, the 83rd-largest of 216 villages in Chauri Chaura tehsil. Literacy is 69%, 13 points above the tehsil average of 56% and the sex ratio is 950 women per 1,000 men. It lies 163 km from the Gorakhpur district centre, 39 km from Hanswar, the nearest town, 6 km from Chureb railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 273202, served by Sardar Nagar post office; the LGD village code is 185959. The nearest hospital or health centre is Patel Hospital, Sant Kabir Nagar, 6 km away. The sarpanch is vinay shukla, and the village votes in Dariyabad assembly constituency, represented by MLA Satish Chandra Sharma. The population is estimated at 2,202 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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