By population, Pokharni ranks #2 of 87 villages in Khirkiya mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Pokharni is a village of 2,735 people in 599 households (Census 2011) in Khirkiya tehsil, Harda district, Madhya Pradesh, the 2nd-largest of 87 villages in Khirkiya tehsil. Literacy is 57%, 2 points below the tehsil average of 59% and the sex ratio is 966 women per 1,000 men. It lies 14 km from the Harda district centre, 5 km from Timarni railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 461441, served by Khirkiyan R.S. post office; the LGD village code is 486554. The nearest hospital or health centre is Maa Rewa Hospital Harda Dr Manjusha Parhate, 15 km away. The sarpanch is mahipal singh rajput, and the village votes in Khategaon assembly constituency, represented by MLA Aashish Govind Sharma. The population is estimated at 3,225 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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