About Paraghat Village

Paraghat is a large village in Masturi tehsil, in the district of Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 2,911, made up of 1,477 males and 1,434 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 971 females per 1000 males. The village covers 697.83 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 495550, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Paraghat compares

By the 2011 count Paraghat is the 26th largest of the 161 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well above average, where the typical village holds 1,732 residents. Its 697.83 hectares work out to about 4.2 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, the balance between women and men is close to even, though that is a little below the tehsil average of 990.

Getting to Paraghat

Paraghat is well connected by rural standards, with buses in the village itself and a railway station close by. The census records public bus service for Paraghat as Available. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 5 - 10 km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within <5 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Paraghat from other places

Paraghat lies about 18 km from Bilaspur, and the nearest railway station is Jairamnagar, about 3.0 km away. The figures below are straight-line distances from the village to each place. A road journey is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again.

Villages closest to Paraghat

These are the nearest recorded villages by distance rather than by name, all of them in Masturi tehsil.

• Khudubhatha 1.6 km
• Bhanesar 1.9 km
• Deogaon 3.0 km
• Jairam Nagar 3.1 km
• Hirri 4.2 km
• Kachhar 4.5 km

Source: Census of India 2011, the most recent completed census. Figures have not been revised since collection. Read more on our about the data page.