Linga observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Linga ranks #151 of 270 villages in Gadarwara mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Linga is a village of 585 people in 139 households (Census 2011) in Gadarwara tehsil, Narsimhapur district, Madhya Pradesh, the 151st-largest of 270 villages in Gadarwara tehsil. Literacy is 49%, 13 points below the tehsil average of 62% and the sex ratio is 887 women per 1,000 men. It lies 36 km from the Narsimhapur district centre, 38 km from Bankhedi, the nearest town, 41 km from Gadarwara railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 487441, served by Sihora (Narsinghpur) post office; the LGD village code is 490711. The nearest hospital or health centre is Primary Hospital Chunethiya, 7 km away. The sarpanch is TARACHAND CHOUDHRI, and the village votes in Udaipura assembly constituency, represented by MLA Narendra Shivaji Patel. The population is estimated at 690 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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