Kanti observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
Kanti is a village in Hatta mandal, Damoh district, Madhya Pradesh. It has a population of 1,704 across 383 households with a literacy rate of 56.2%. The village is located at coordinates 24.227°N, 79.650°E.
By population, Kanti ranks #10 of 158 villages in Hatta mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kanti is a village of 1,704 people in 383 households (Census 2011) in Hatta tehsil, Damoh district, Madhya Pradesh, the 10th-largest of 158 villages in Hatta tehsil. Literacy is 56%, 5 points above the tehsil average of 52% and the sex ratio is 895 women per 1,000 men. It lies 65 km from the Damoh district centre, 43 km from Bandakpur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 470775, served by Hatta (Damoh) post office; the LGD village code is 461718. The nearest hospital or health centre is Civil Hospital, 11 km away. The sarpanch is SANJAY RANI ADIWASI, and the village votes in Hatta assembly constituency, represented by MLA Umadevi Lalchand Khatik. The population is estimated at 2,009 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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