By population, Papra ranks #50 of 162 villages in Amarpatan mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Papra is a village of 1,338 people in 283 households (Census 2011) in Amarpatan tehsil, Maihar district, Madhya Pradesh, the 50th-largest of 162 villages in Amarpatan tehsil. Literacy is 43%, 17 points below the tehsil average of 60% and the sex ratio is 1,052 women per 1,000 men. It lies 17 km from the Maihar district centre, 44 km from Hadha, the nearest town, 7 km from Unchhera railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 485778, served by Kathaha post office; the LGD village code is 464414. The nearest hospital or health centre is CH Amarpatan, 13 km away. The sarpanch is rampyari singh tiwari, and the village votes in Rampur-Baghelan assembly constituency, represented by MLA Vikram Singh (Vicky). The population is estimated at 1,578 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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