Surguja, Chhattisgarh

Scheduled AreaCensus 2011 district code 401

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27 Oct 2026 · Details soughtEssential details soughtExpansion of Barima Bauxite Mine in 54.268 Ha with Production Capacity From1,15,327 TPA to 250000TPA (ROM)…
17 Oct 2026 · Details soughtEssential details soughtExpansion of Parsa East and Kanta Basan (PEKB) Opencast Coal Mine from 18 MTPA to 21 MTPA (Phase-II 20%…
17 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedExpansion of Parsa East and Kanta Basan (PEKB) Opencast Coal Mine from 18 MTPA to 21 MTPA (Phase-II 20%…
16 Oct 2026 · DecidedEnvironmental clearance grantedAayush Agrawal
16 Oct 2026 · Details soughtEssential details soughtBANDHA BRICKS EARTH QUARRY AND BRICKS KILN , LESSEE - SMT. PUSHPA PANDE, AREA - 1.364 KHASRA - 356/1,2,…
15 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtAbhishek Singh
14 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtSAND QUARRY KAILASHPUR
14 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtKrishna Rai
13 Oct 2026 · Details soughtEssential details soughtProposed 2nd Phase Capacity Optimization and Expansion from 1.20 MTPA to 1.40 MTPA (Cumulative 40%…
13 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedBANDHA BRICKS EARTH QUARRY AND BRICKS KILN , LESSEE - SMT. PUSHPA PANDE, AREA - 1.364 KHASRA - 356/1,2,…
12 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtMAA KUDARGARHI STONE CRUSHER PRIVATE LIMITED
9 Oct 2026 · Details soughtEssential details suppliedJAGANNATHPUR OPENCAST COAL MINE PROJECT

Dated by the portal's own appraisal history, converted to India Standard Time; a proposal with no recorded history appears on its register submission date.

Other clearances these proposals declare

Forest land diversion declared: 19
Forest land sought for diversion: 357 ha
Wildlife board recommendation declared: 4
In or near a protected area: 0
In an eco-sensitive zone: 0

These counts are taken from the application forms of the 246 of 246 proposals naming this district whose forms have been read for these questions. In 135 of those forms at least one question was left blank, and a blank answer is counted as unknown. The forest area is the area stated for forest clearance, with each forest proposal counted once, in the district where its project is primarily sited.

Proposals naming this district: 246
Category A proposals: 38
Families declared displaced: 5,690
Families declared affected: 15,480

Displacement figures are the proponents’ own declarations. A project sited across several districts declares one figure for the whole project, and that figure is counted once, in the district where the project is primarily sited.

Fifth Schedule status

Within a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area

The Order fixes the area by reference to territorial divisions as existing at 20 February 2003. It names this district as a whole.

OrderThe Scheduled Areas (States of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh) Order, 2003 · C.O. 192, notified 2003-02-20

What the record shows

Half or more of the people counted here in 2011 were Scheduled Tribe: 55.1%, against 8.55% nationally.
Cultivators and agricultural labourers make up 86% of workers here, against 55% nationally, so at least three in four people who work here do so on the land.
Agricultural labourers, who work other people's land for wages, make up 45% of workers here. Compensation for acquired land is paid to those who hold title to it, so it does not reach them. They can still claim the rehabilitation and resettlement entitlements of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (RFCTLARR), because its section 3(c) counts a family whose livelihood depends on the land as an affected family, wherever that Act governs how the land is obtained.
This district is a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area. Under section 41(3) of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (RFCTLARR), land here can be acquired only with the prior consent of the Gram Sabha, and the requirement holds even when an acquisition is urgent.
246 clearance proposals name this district, where 55% of people are Scheduled Tribe and 86% of workers depend on the land. 38 of those proposals are Category A, the class the central government appraises.
Applicants for projects sited mainly in this district have declared 5,690 families to be displaced. The figure comes from their applications, and we have not verified it.

Each of these observations appears when a fixed rule is met by the figures on this page, so the same figures always give the same sentences. None of them is a view on whether a project should go ahead.

Who lives there

Figures from Census 2011, each compared with the all-India value computed on the same definition.

Total population: 23,59,886
Households: 5,26,049
Average household size: 4.49; 0.36 below India's 4.85India
Scheduled Tribe share of population: 55.1%; 46.6 points above IndiaIndia
Scheduled Caste share of population: 4.9%; 11.7 points below IndiaIndia
Children aged 0-6: 16.1%; 2.5 points above IndiaIndia
Literacy rate: 60.0%; 13.0 points below IndiaIndia
Sex ratio: 978; 35.3 above India's 942.6India

What they live on

How the district's workers earn a living, from Census 2011. The land-dependent share counts cultivators and agricultural labourers as a share of all workers, and it is the group most directly affected when land is acquired.

Total workers: 11,55,807
Work participation rate: 49.0%; 9.2 points above IndiaIndia
Workers dependent on land: 85.5%; 31.0 points above IndiaIndia
Cultivators: 40.3%; 15.6 points above IndiaIndia
Agricultural labourers: 45.3%; 15.4 points above IndiaIndia
Marginal workers: 46.1%; 21.4 points above IndiaIndia
Household industry workers: 1.1%; 2.7 points below IndiaIndia

How households live

Land, income and work among rural households, from the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011, which recorded these where the population census did not. Only the survey's rural part is used here, so urban households do not appear.

Rural households owning land: 64.7%; 18.6 points above IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households whose highest earner makes over ₹5,000 a month: 7.4%; 16.9 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households living mainly on manual casual labour: 41.8%; 10.0 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households with a salaried member: 5.3%; 3.0 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.

When these were filed

Each proposal is dated by the first step in its appraisal history, the dated record of steps the portal keeps for it.

2023-Q22026-Q4

The timeline counts 216 of the 246 proposals here. The first filing date comes from each proposal's appraisal history, and we have not yet read it for the other 30, so they are left out. Most of them are older proposals, so the early part of the timeline undercounts what was filed then. The register itself records a date for each of them; the gap is in our copy of the histories.

Hatched columns undercount, so they cannot be compared with solid ones. 4 of them cover periods for which we have read few filing dates so far, and they count only the proposals whose date we have. 2026-Q4 was still running when the register was read, so its column counts only the filings made up to that date.

What kind of projects these are

The proposals naming this district, grouped by the sector each was filed under.

Non-Coal Mining 83.3%
Coal Mining 11.8%
River Valley and Hydroelectric Projects 2%
Industrial Projects - 1 1.2%
Other (2) 1.6%

The four largest sectors are shown by name and the rest are grouped as Other.

What is proposed here

These are the proposals in the national environmental clearance register whose application names a site in this district, newest first. A project with sites in several districts appears under each of them.

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