Kayan observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Kayan ranks #18 of 108 villages in Bada Malhera mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kayan is a village of 1,585 people in 415 households (Census 2011) in Bada Malhera tehsil, Chhatarpur district, Madhya Pradesh, the 18th-largest of 108 villages in Bada Malhera tehsil. Literacy is 51%, 5 points above the tehsil average of 46% and the sex ratio is 974 women per 1,000 men. It lies 24 km from the Chhatarpur district centre, 58 km from Vijaypur, the nearest town, 23 km from Tila railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 471311, served by Badamalehara post office; the LGD village code is 458135. The nearest hospital or health centre is Goverment hospital,Bijawar, 21 km away. The sarpanch is heera kumari. The population is estimated at 1,869 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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