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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
abhishek kourav
Contact: 93****4594
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- LGD code
- 491037
- Pincode
- 487441
- Post office
- Sihora (Narsinghpur)
- Population
- 495
- Households
- 122
- Literacy rate
- 56.6%
- Sex ratio
- 919 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 277
- Distance to district centre
- 39 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 6 km
- Distance to Bhopal
- 112 km
- Distance to Delhi
- 620 km
- Nearest railway station
- Salichauka Road · 40 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Primary Hospital Chunethiya · 6 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Papra compares
By population, Papra ranks #176 of 270 villages in Gadarwara mandal.
Literacy rate
%
56.6%
−5.1% vs mandal average
- Papra
- 56.6%
- Gadarwara mandal
- 61.7%
- Narsimhapur district
- 65.8%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
919
Same as the mandal average
- Papra
- 919
- Gadarwara mandal
- 919
Household size
people per home
4.1
−0.4 vs mandal average
- Papra
- 4.1
- Gadarwara mandal
- 4.5
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Papra at a glance
Papra is a village of 495 people in 122 households (Census 2011) in Gadarwara tehsil, Narsimhapur district, Madhya Pradesh, the 176th-largest of 270 villages in Gadarwara tehsil. Literacy is 57%, 5 points below the tehsil average of 62% and the sex ratio is 919 women per 1,000 men. It lies 39 km from the Narsimhapur district centre, 38 km from Bankhedi, the nearest town, 40 km from Salichauka Road railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 487441, served by Sihora (Narsinghpur) post office; the LGD village code is 491037. The nearest hospital or health centre is Primary Hospital Chunethiya, 6 km away. The sarpanch is abhishek kourav, and the village votes in Udaipura assembly constituency, represented by MLA Narendra Shivaji Patel. The population is estimated at 584 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Papra
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- No
- Electricity for homes
- No
- Electricity for farms
- No
- Power hours (summer)
- 0
- Power hours (winter)
- 0
- Primary school
- 1
- Middle school
- 0
- Secondary school
- 0
- Senior secondary
- 0
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 0
- Health sub-centre
- 0
- Community health centre
- 0
- Dispensary
- 0
- Veterinary hospital
- 0
- Post office
- No
- Sub post office
- No
- Commercial bank
- No
- Cooperative bank
- No
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- No
- Private bus service
- No
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- No
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- GADARWARA
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 13
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 60
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 23
- All-weather road
- No
- Total area (ha)
- 297.6
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 85.1
- Forest area (ha)
- 92.38
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Papra
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Papra
- LGD code
- 491037
- Pincode
- 487441
- Post office
- Sihora (Narsinghpur)
- Population (Census 2011)
- 495
- Population (projected 2026)
- 584
- Households
- 122
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 919
- Literacy rate
- 56.6%
- Coordinates
- 23.15825°N, 78.50654°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Hoshangabad
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Udaipura
- Member of Parliament
- Darshan Singh Choudhary
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Narendra Shivaji Patel
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- abhishek kourav
- Block / Mandal
- Gadarwara
Getting there
How to reach Papra
Distance to cities · straight line
- Bhopal112 kmcapital
- Delhi620 km
- Hyderabad642 km
- Mumbai739 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationSalichauka Road40 km
- Hospital / PHCPrimary Hospital Chunethiya6 km
- ATM / bankrk bank9 km
- CollegeGovt. ITI, Pipariya51 km
- Police stationPolice Station, Pipariya47 km
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records
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