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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Sunita Muwel
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- LGD code
- 475800
- Pincode
- 454446
- Post office
- Manawar
- Population
- 458
- Households
- 98
- Literacy rate
- 64.8%
- Sex ratio
- 900 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 223
- Distance to district centre
- 120 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 134 km
- Distance to Bhopal
- 268 km
- Distance to Mumbai
- 532 km
- Nearest railway station
- Namli · 27 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government hospital Sarwan · 4 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Mahapura compares
By population, Mahapura ranks #185 of 208 villages in Manawar mandal.
Literacy rate
%
64.8%
+15.9% vs mandal average
- Mahapura
- 64.8%
- Manawar mandal
- 48.9%
- Dhar district
- 49.3%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
900
−82 vs mandal average
- Mahapura
- 900
- Manawar mandal
- 982
Household size
people per home
4.7
−0.4 vs mandal average
- Mahapura
- 4.7
- Manawar mandal
- 5.1
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Mahapura at a glance
Mahapura is a village of 458 people in 98 households (Census 2011) in Manawar tehsil, Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh, the 185th-largest of 208 villages in Manawar tehsil. Literacy is 65%, 16 points above the tehsil average of 49% and the sex ratio is 900 women per 1,000 men. It lies 120 km from the Dhar district centre, 49 km from Ghatol, the nearest town, 27 km from Namli railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 454446, served by Manawar post office; the LGD village code is 475800. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government hospital Sarwan, 4 km away. The sarpanch is Sunita Muwel. The population is estimated at 540 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Mahapura
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- Yes
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- No
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- Yes
- Power hours (summer)
- 6
- Power hours (winter)
- 6
- Primary school
- 1
- Middle school
- 0
- Secondary school
- 0
- Senior secondary
- 0
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 0
- Health sub-centre
- 0
- Community health centre
- 0
- Dispensary
- 0
- Veterinary hospital
- 0
- Post office
- No
- Sub post office
- No
- Commercial bank
- No
- Cooperative bank
- No
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- No
- Private bus service
- No
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- MANAWAR
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 20
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 103
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 20
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Total area (ha)
- 409
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 210
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Mahapura
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Mahapura
- LGD code
- 475800
- Pincode
- 454446
- Post office
- Manawar
- Population (Census 2011)
- 458
- Population (projected 2026)
- 540
- Households
- 98
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 900
- Literacy rate
- 64.8%
- Coordinates
- 23.50902°N, 74.80493°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Indore
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Debalpur
- Member of Parliament
- Shankar Lalwani
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Sunita Muwel
- Block / Mandal
- Manawar
- Nearest PHC
- ऑर्थोपेडिक एंड पेड्रियातिक क्लिनिक (144.8 km)
- Nearest bank
- Bank of Baroda (144.1 km)
Getting there
How to reach Mahapura
Distance to cities · straight line
- Bhopal268 kmcapital
- Mumbai532 km
- Delhi616 km
- Hyderabad781 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationNamli27 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment hospital Sarwan4 km
- ATM / bankpunjab national bank, banswara37 km
- Petrol pumpbharat petroleum, banswara37 km
- CollegePrincipal's Bungalow35 km
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View all 60+ →Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-21
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)