About Salka Village

Salka is a small village in Manendragarh tehsil, in the district of Koriya, Chhattisgarh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 336, made up of 167 males and 169 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,012 females per 1000 males. The village covers 258.39 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 497442, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Salka compares

By the 2011 count Salka is the 86th largest of the 125 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well below average, where the typical village holds 647 residents. Its 258.39 hectares work out to about 1.3 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 Salka

Salka 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 Salka as Available. Private bus service is recorded as Available within <5 km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within <5 km distance. The nearest villages by name are Ramanujnagar, Ratoura, Rojhi and Rokda. 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.