Rurai observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Rurai ranks #14 of 147 villages in Lahar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Rurai is a village of 2,356 people in 398 households (Census 2011) in Lahar tehsil, Bhind district, Madhya Pradesh, the 14th-largest of 147 villages in Lahar tehsil. Literacy is 49%, 12 points below the tehsil average of 61% and the sex ratio is 815 women per 1,000 men. It lies 25 km from the Bhind district centre, 11 km from Jauri, the nearest town, 35 km from Konch railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 477446, served by Aswar post office; the LGD village code is 453616. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government hospital Alampur, 7 km away. The sarpanch is ramesh jatav, and the village votes in Lahar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Ambrish Sharma (Guddu). The population is estimated at 2,778 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Rurai →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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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