Merkhedi observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Merkhedi ranks #52 of 57 villages in Hatod mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Merkhedi is a village of 466 people in 85 households (Census 2011) in Hatod tehsil, Indore district, Madhya Pradesh, the 52nd-largest of 57 villages in Hatod tehsil. Literacy is 61%, 3 points above the tehsil average of 58% and the sex ratio is 950 women per 1,000 men. It lies 38 km from the Indore district centre, 9 km from Shajapur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 453111, served by Hatod post office; the LGD village code is 476090. The nearest hospital or health centre is Vyas Nursing Home, 6 km away. The sarpanch is Mukesh parmar, and the village votes in Sanwer assembly constituency, represented by MLA Tulsiram Silawat. The population is estimated at 549 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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