Katangi observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Katangi ranks #110 of 162 villages in Lanji mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Katangi is a village of 324 people in 74 households (Census 2011) in Lanji tehsil, Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh, the 110th-largest of 162 villages in Lanji tehsil. Literacy is 73%, 5 points above the tehsil average of 68% and the sex ratio is 810 women per 1,000 men. It lies 49 km from the Balaghat district centre, 36 km from Ashti, the nearest town, under 1 km from Saongi railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 481224, served by Karanja (Balaghat) post office; the LGD village code is 498525. The nearest hospital or health centre is Civil Hospital Waraseoni, 7 km away. The sarpanch is MAHENDRA KUMAR BORKAR, and the village votes in Balaghat assembly constituency, represented by MLA Anubha Munjare. The population is estimated at 382 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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