Tekri observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
Temples near Tekri
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By population, Tekri ranks #96 of 162 villages in Lanji mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Tekri is a village of 664 people in 137 households (Census 2011) in Lanji tehsil, Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh, the 96th-largest of 162 villages in Lanji tehsil. Literacy is 68%, about the same as the tehsil average of 68% and the sex ratio is 1,012 women per 1,000 men. It lies 377 km from the Balaghat district centre, 10 km from Borgaon Buzurg, the nearest town, 5 km from Burhanpur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 481222, served by Lanji post office; the LGD village code is 498623. The nearest hospital or health centre is Sanmati Hopital, <1 km away. The sarpanch is PRABHUDAYAL KIRME, and the village votes in Balaghat assembly constituency, represented by MLA Anubha Munjare. The population is estimated at 783 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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