Barela observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Barela ranks #44 of 51 villages in Barhi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Barela is a village of 512 people in 110 households (Census 2011) in Barhi tehsil, Katni district, Madhya Pradesh, the 44th-largest of 51 villages in Barhi tehsil. Literacy is 58%, 6 points above the tehsil average of 52% and the sex ratio is 1,032 women per 1,000 men. It lies 78 km from the Katni district centre, 12 km from Pipariya Kalan railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 483770, served by Barhi (Katni) post office; the LGD village code is 488319. The nearest hospital or health centre is GOVT HOSPITAL, 5 km away. The sarpanch is BINDI BAI, and the village votes in Bahoriband assembly constituency, represented by MLA Pranay Prabhat Pandey (Guddu Bhaiya). The population is estimated at 604 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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