Lekwada observes Bastar Dussehra on Monday, 21 September 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
By population, Lekwada ranks #36 of 81 villages in Orchha mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Lekwada is a village of 184 people in 39 households (Census 2011) in Orchha tehsil, Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh, the 36th-largest of 81 villages in Orchha tehsil. Literacy is 13%, 14 points below the tehsil average of 27% and the sex ratio is 957 women per 1,000 men. It lies 28 km from the Narayanpur district centre, 47 km from Gidam railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 494661, served by Narayanpur (Narayanpur) post office; the LGD village code is 450025. The sarpanch is Smt chimri mandavi. The population is estimated at 217 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Pidiyakote →
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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