Melkalma observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Melkalma ranks #79 of 118 villages in Sanwer mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Melkalma is a village of 786 people in 125 households (Census 2011) in Sanwer tehsil, Indore district, Madhya Pradesh, the 79th-largest of 118 villages in Sanwer tehsil. Literacy is 67%, 8 points above the tehsil average of 60% and the sex ratio is 955 women per 1,000 men. It lies 67 km from the Indore district centre, 30 km from Datoda, the nearest town, 11 km from Dakchya railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 453771, served by Manglia post office; the LGD village code is 476214. The nearest hospital or health centre is kjd, 10 km away. The sarpanch is sundar bai rawat, and the village votes in Sonkatch assembly constituency, represented by MLA Dr. Rajesh Sonkar. The population is estimated at 927 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Vyaskhedi →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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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