Barana observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Barana ranks #66 of 111 villages in Chanderi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Barana is a village of 459 people in 86 households (Census 2011) in Chanderi tehsil, Ashoknagar district, Madhya Pradesh, the 66th-largest of 111 villages in Chanderi tehsil. Literacy is 31%, 17 points below the tehsil average of 47% and the sex ratio is 921 women per 1,000 men. It lies 165 km from the Ashoknagar district centre, 25 km from Bariya, the nearest town, 21 km from Nandkhas railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 473446, served by Chanderi post office; the LGD village code is 500224. The nearest hospital or health centre is Ayurvedic Hospital, 21 km away. The sarpanch is Balvir Singh Yadav, and the village votes in Mungaoli assembly constituency, represented by MLA Brajendra Singh Yadav. The population is estimated at 541 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Khagal →
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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