Kuwakonda is a

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

and the development block headquarters of

Dantewada district Dantewada District, also known as Dantewara District or Dakshin Bastar District (South Bastar District), is a district in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Dantewada is the district headquarters. The district is part of Bastar Division. Until 19 ...

Bastar Division Bastar division is an administrative division of Chhattisgarh state in central India. It includes the districts of Bastar, Dantewada Dantewada (also known as Dantewara) is a town and a municipality, or nagar palika. in the Dantewada distr ...

, of

Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh (, ) is a landlocked state in Central India. It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the seventeenth most populous. It borders seven states – Uttar Pradesh to the north, Madhya Prade ...

. Kuwakonda is located on the Dantewada–Hyderabad Road, 24 km from the district headquarters in the town of

Dantewada Dantewada (also known as Dantewara) is a town and a municipality, or nagar palika. in the Dantewada district in the state of Chhattisgarh, India.It is the administrative headquarters of Dantewada District. It is the fourth largest city of Bastar ...

Administrative divisions

Kuwakonda Tehsil is divided into twenty-six

gram panchayat Gram Panchayat () is a basic village-governing institute in Indian villages. It is a democratic structure at the grass-roots level in India. It is a political institute, acting as cabinet of the village. The Gram Sabha work as the general bod ...

s, each one of which has jurisdiction over one or more villages.

Notes

Cities and towns in Dantewada district Tehsils of Chhattisgarh {{Chhattisgarh-geo-stub