By population, Simra ranks #29 of 57 villages in Murwara Or Katni mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Simra is a village of 1,067 people in 222 households (Census 2011) in Murwara Or Katni tehsil, Katni district, Madhya Pradesh, the 29th-largest of 57 villages in Murwara Or Katni tehsil. Literacy is 58%, 3 points below the tehsil average of 60% and the sex ratio is 965 women per 1,000 men. It lies 98 km from the Katni district centre, 32 km from Hadha, the nearest town, 36 km from Khajuraho railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 483501, served by Katni Bazar post office; the LGD village code is 488152. The nearest hospital or health centre is PHC Rakseha, 5 km away. The sarpanch is Neha Pandey, and the village votes in Bahoriband assembly constituency, represented by MLA Pranay Prabhat Pandey (Guddu Bhaiya). The population is estimated at 1,258 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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