Bakayan observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Bakayan ranks #23 of 150 villages in Batiyagarh mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bakayan is a village of 1,589 people in 381 households (Census 2011) in Batiyagarh tehsil, Damoh district, Madhya Pradesh, the 23rd-largest of 150 villages in Batiyagarh tehsil. Literacy is 69%, 14 points above the tehsil average of 55% and the sex ratio is 971 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 470673, served by Batiagarh post office; the LGD village code is 462089. The sarpanch is NIDHI PATEL, and the village votes in Banda assembly constituency, represented by MLA Veerendra Singh Lodhi. The population is estimated at 1,873 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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