Behta observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
Behta is a village in Lahar mandal, Bhind district, Madhya Pradesh. It has a population of 400 across 79 households with a literacy rate of 68.5%. The village is situated at coordinates 26.081°N, 79.004°E.
By population, Behta ranks #115 of 147 villages in Lahar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Behta is a village of 400 people in 79 households (Census 2011) in Lahar tehsil, Bhind district, Madhya Pradesh, the 115th-largest of 147 villages in Lahar tehsil. Literacy is 69%, 8 points above the tehsil average of 61% and the sex ratio is 739 women per 1,000 men. It lies 38 km from the Bhind district centre, 25 km from Jauri, the nearest town, 18 km from Konch railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 477445, served by Lahar post office; the LGD village code is 453628. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government hospital, 4 km away. The sarpanch is SATENDRA SINGH, and the village votes in Lahar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Ambrish Sharma (Guddu). The population is estimated at 472 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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