Baraua observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Baraua ranks #75 of 93 villages in Dabra mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Baraua is a village of 502 people in 88 households (Census 2011) in Dabra tehsil, Gwalior district, Madhya Pradesh, the 75th-largest of 93 villages in Dabra tehsil. Literacy is 66%, 12 points above the tehsil average of 54% and the sex ratio is 832 women per 1,000 men. It lies 30 km from the Gwalior district centre, 26 km from Shekhupur, the nearest town, 1 km from Sithouli railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 475220, served by Bhitarwar post office; the LGD village code is 454182. The nearest hospital or health centre is Max Care Hospital, 4 km away. The sarpanch is Anita Bai, and the village votes in Dabra assembly constituency, represented by MLA Suresh Raje. The population is estimated at 592 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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