Sarra observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Sarra ranks #80 of 162 villages in Lanji mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sarra is a village of 927 people in 198 households (Census 2011) in Lanji tehsil, Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh, the 80th-largest of 162 villages in Lanji tehsil. Literacy is 50%, 18 points below the tehsil average of 68% and the sex ratio is 1,028 women per 1,000 men. It lies 43 km from the Balaghat district centre, 34 km from Ashti, the nearest town, 8 km from Saongi railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 481222, served by Lanji post office; the LGD village code is 498572. The nearest hospital or health centre is Civil Hospital Waraseoni, 15 km away. The sarpanch is SHRIRAM ACHARE, and the village votes in Balaghat assembly constituency, represented by MLA Anubha Munjare. The population is estimated at 1,093 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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