Payali observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Payali ranks #154 of 168 villages in Khategaon mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Payali is a village of 245 people in 63 households (Census 2011) in Khategaon tehsil, Dewas district, Madhya Pradesh, the 154th-largest of 168 villages in Khategaon tehsil. Literacy is 49%, 6 points below the tehsil average of 55% and the sex ratio is 856 women per 1,000 men. It lies 106 km from the Dewas district centre, 40 km from Dag, the nearest town, 51 km from Sarangpur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 455336, served by Khategaon post office; the LGD village code is 474292. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, 14 km away. The sarpanch is Ramesh Dhangar, and the village votes in Khategaon assembly constituency, represented by MLA Aashish Govind Sharma. The population is estimated at 289 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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