By population, Bakal ranks #2 of 144 villages in Bahoriband mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bakal is a village of 4,460 people in 1,072 households (Census 2011) in Bahoriband tehsil, Katni district, Madhya Pradesh, the 2nd-largest of 144 villages in Bahoriband tehsil. Literacy is 67%, 7 points above the tehsil average of 60% and the sex ratio is 950 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 483331, served by Bakal post office; the LGD village code is 488605. The sarpanch is Shri Manoj Kumar Patel , and the village votes in Bahoriband assembly constituency, represented by MLA Pranay Prabhat Pandey (Guddu Bhaiya). The population is estimated at 5,258 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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