About Rakya Village

Rakya is a small village in Baikunthpur tehsil, in the district of Koriya, Chhattisgarh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 449, made up of 225 males and 224 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 996 females per 1000 males. The village covers 248.43 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 497335, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Rakya compares

By the 2011 count Rakya is the 89th largest of the 125 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well below average, where the typical village holds 1,012 residents. Its 248.43 hectares work out to about 1.8 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, the balance between women and men is close to even, a little above the tehsil average of 981.

Getting to Rakya

Rakya 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 Rakya as Available. Private bus service is recorded as Available within village. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within <5 km distance. The nearest villages by name are Piparhiya, Pipra, Puta and Putadand. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

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.