Chikhalya observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Chikhalya ranks #20 of 23 villages in Dhulcot mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chikhalya is a village of 1,146 people in 189 households (Census 2011) in Dhulcot tehsil, Burhanpur district, Madhya Pradesh, the 20th-largest of 23 villages in Dhulcot tehsil. Literacy is 26%, 2 points above the tehsil average of 25% and the sex ratio is 986 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 450331, served by Burhanpur post office; the LGD village code is 506388. The sarpanch is Sangeeta, and the village votes in Harda assembly constituency, represented by MLA Dr. Ram Kishore Dogne. The population is estimated at 1,351 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Boribujurg →
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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