Chikanya observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Chikanya ranks #12 of 107 villages in Garoth mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chikanya is a village of 2,349 people in 488 households (Census 2011) in Garoth tehsil, Mandsaur district, Madhya Pradesh, the 12th-largest of 107 villages in Garoth tehsil. Literacy is 48%, 9 points below the tehsil average of 57% and the sex ratio is 964 women per 1,000 men. It lies 37 km from the Mandsaur district centre, 18 km from Bhensoda, the nearest town, 5 km from Kurlasi railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 458880, served by Garoth post office; the LGD village code is 469403. The nearest hospital or health centre is Dr. Qureshi Hospital, 9 km away. The sarpanch is Shyamsingh Chouhan, and the village votes in Garoth assembly constituency, represented by MLA Chandar Singh Sisodiya. The population is estimated at 2,769 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Chikniya →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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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