Potla observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Potla ranks #11 of 97 villages in Udaynagar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Potla is a village of 2,247 people in 368 households (Census 2011) in Udaynagar tehsil, Dewas district, Madhya Pradesh, the 11th-largest of 97 villages in Udaynagar tehsil. Literacy is 36%, 3 points below the tehsil average of 40% and the sex ratio is 1,012 women per 1,000 men. It lies 79 km from the Dewas district centre, 34 km from Barud, the nearest town, 27 km from Barwaha railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 455227, served by Bagli post office; the LGD village code is 474076. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government hospital Katkut, 18 km away. The sarpanch is Lila Bai Dodve, and the village votes in Sonkatch assembly constituency, represented by MLA Dr. Rajesh Sonkar. The population is estimated at 2,649 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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