Lapta observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Lapta ranks #9 of 67 villages in Jaithari mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Lapta is a village of 2,175 people in 515 households (Census 2011) in Jaithari tehsil, Anuppur district, Madhya Pradesh, the 9th-largest of 67 villages in Jaithari tehsil. Literacy is 54%, about the same as the tehsil average of 53% and the sex ratio is 939 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 484113, served by Venkatnagar post office; the LGD village code is 502003. The sarpanch is Ghavati shih, and the village votes in Bandhavgarh assembly constituency, represented by MLA Shivnarayan Gyan Singh (Lallu Bhaiya). The population is estimated at 2,564 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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