By population, Chhayan ranks #115 of 168 villages in Malhargarh mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chhayan is a village of 615 people in 125 households (Census 2011) in Malhargarh tehsil, Mandsaur district, Madhya Pradesh, the 115th-largest of 168 villages in Malhargarh tehsil. Literacy is 53%, 10 points below the tehsil average of 63% and the sex ratio is 971 women per 1,000 men. It lies 23 km from the Mandsaur district centre, 60 km from Bhensoda, the nearest town, 29 km from Sindpan railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 458556, served by Budha post office; the LGD village code is 469290. The nearest hospital or health centre is R.K. Private Hospital, Dr. M.L. Lohar, 5 km away. The sarpanch is rekha bai, and the village votes in Malhargarh assembly constituency, represented by MLA Jagdish Devda. The population is estimated at 725 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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