PACS in Chhattisgarh
PACS covers 09 of the 16 districts in Chhattisgarh
People belonging to three main socially excluded groups (scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and Muslims), constitute 54.3% of the total population of the 09 PACS districts in Chhattisgarh, according to Census 2001 data.
Key indicators of Chhattisgarh:
| Total population (Census 2001) | 20.83 million |
| Decadal growth (1991-2001) | 18.27% |
| Crude birth rate (SRS* 2008) | 26.1 |
| Crude death rate (SRS 2008) | 8.1 |
| Total fertility rate (SRS 2007) | 3 |
| Infant mortality rate (SRS 2008) | 57 |
| Maternal mortality ratio (SRS 2004-06) | 335 |
| Sex ratio (Census 2001) | 989 |
| Rural population below poverty line # | 40.8% |
| SC population (Census 2001) | 2.42 million (11.6%) |
| ST population (Census 2001) | 6.62 million (31.8%) |
| Female literacy rate (Census 2001) | 51.9 |
PACS districts in Chhattisgarh (Click on a district to view its key indicators)
| Bastar (Jagdalpur) | Kanker |
| Bilaspur | Koriya (Baikunthpur) |
| Dantewada | Raipur |
| Dhamtari | Surguja (Ambikapur) |
| Janjgir-Champa |
Footnote: * Sample Registration System, Office of Registrar General, India, quoted in website of National Rural Health Mission (http://www.mohfw.nic.in/NRHM/Health_Profile.htm)
# Planning Commission estimate for 2004-05, using uniform recall period consumption-distribution data of National Sample Survey (NSS) 61st Round, quoted in `Poverty estimates for 2004-05’, press release of Press Information Bureau, Government of India, March 2007
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