Bijwad observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Bijwad ranks #22 of 66 villages in Kannod mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bijwad is a village of 1,589 people in 383 households (Census 2011) in Kannod tehsil, Dewas district, Madhya Pradesh, the 22nd-largest of 66 villages in Kannod tehsil. Literacy is 56%, 6 points above the tehsil average of 49% and the sex ratio is 945 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 455440, served by Kantaphod post office; the LGD village code is 473725. The sarpanch is Saroj bai devda, and the village votes in Ashta assembly constituency, represented by MLA Gopal Singh Engineer. The population is estimated at 1,873 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Bijwad →
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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