Kankar observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Kankar ranks #99 of 137 villages in Agar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kankar is a village of 464 people in 107 households (Census 2011) in Agar tehsil, Agar-Malwa district, Madhya Pradesh, the 99th-largest of 137 villages in Agar tehsil. Literacy is 74%, 22 points above the tehsil average of 52% and the sex ratio is 941 women per 1,000 men. It lies 18 km from the Agar-Malwa district centre, 34 km from Dag, the nearest town, 40 km from Shajapur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 465441, served by Agar Malwa post office; the LGD village code is 472528. The nearest hospital or health centre is Seva Bharti Swasthya Mandir Naturopathy Treatment, 7 km away. The sarpanch is Gordhan singh, and the village votes in Agar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Madhav Singh. The population is estimated at 547 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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