About Lai Village

Lai is a mid sized village in Manendragarh tehsil, in the district of Koriya, Chhattisgarh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,094, made up of 541 males and 553 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,022 females per 1000 males. The village covers 680.78 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 497442, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Lai compares

By the 2011 count Lai is the 21st largest of the 125 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well above average, where the typical village holds 647 residents. Its 680.78 hectares work out to about 1.6 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, a little above the tehsil average of 995.

Getting to Lai

Lai 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 Lai 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. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Lai from other places

Lai lies about 47 km from Koriya, and the nearest railway station is Paradol, about 28 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 Lai

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

• Lalpur 7.1 km
• Lohari 16 km
• Pipariya 18 km
• Pendri 21 km
• Rojhi 24 km
• Chanwaridand 30 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.