Nilkanth observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Nilkanth ranks #88 of 98 villages in Rajpur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Nilkanth is a village of 634 people in 117 households (Census 2011) in Rajpur tehsil, Barwani district, Madhya Pradesh, the 88th-largest of 98 villages in Rajpur tehsil. Literacy is 39%, 3 points below the tehsil average of 41% and the sex ratio is 876 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 451442, served by Segaon (West Nimar) post office; the LGD village code is 478376. The sarpanch is Sekdita Patel. The population is estimated at 747 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Nagalwadi Khurd →
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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