By population, Chhayan ranks #10 of 11 villages in Dewas Nagar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chhayan is a village of 459 people in 99 households (Census 2011) in Dewas Nagar tehsil, Dewas district, Madhya Pradesh, the 10th-largest of 11 villages in Dewas Nagar tehsil. Literacy is 65%, 4 points above the tehsil average of 62% and the sex ratio is 873 women per 1,000 men. It lies 70 km from the Dewas district centre, 58 km from Datoda, the nearest town, 8 km from Chintaman Ganesh railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 455001, served by Dewas Bada Bazar post office; the LGD village code is 473585. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital Panthpiplai, 6 km away. The sarpanch is ALKA TOUMAR, and the village votes in Tarana assembly constituency, represented by MLA Mahesh Parmar. The population is estimated at 541 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Chandana →
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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