Handia observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Handia ranks #1 of 110 villages in Handiya mandal — the largest.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Handia is a village of 4,221 people in 915 households (Census 2011) in Handiya tehsil, Harda district, Madhya Pradesh, the largest of 110 villages in Handiya tehsil. Literacy is 67%, 13 points above the tehsil average of 54% and the sex ratio is 922 women per 1,000 men. It lies 604 km from the Harda district centre, 47 km from Pagar, the nearest town, under 1 km from Handia Khas railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 461331, served by Harda post office; the LGD village code is 486852. The nearest hospital or health centre is Shivam Hospital, 7 km away. The sarpanch is Lakahn Lal Bhilala, and the village votes in Khategaon assembly constituency, represented by MLA Aashish Govind Sharma. The population is estimated at 4,977 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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