By population, Madai ranks #49 of 67 villages in Katni Nagar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Madai is a village of 516 people in 105 households (Census 2011) in Katni Nagar tehsil, Katni district, Madhya Pradesh, the 49th-largest of 67 villages in Katni Nagar tehsil. Literacy is 72%, 16 points above the tehsil average, and the sex ratio is 1,024 women per 1,000 men. It lies 73 km from the Katni district centre, 21 km from Hadha, the nearest town, 34 km from Unchhera railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 483501, served by Katni Bazar post office; the LGD village code is 488111. The nearest hospital or health centre is Govt. Hospital Saleha, 7 km away. The sarpanch is Kalapna Singh, and the village votes in Pawai assembly constituency, represented by Prahlad Lodhi. The population is estimated at 3,363 in 2026, up 552% since the 2011 Census.
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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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