Barha observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Barha ranks #17 of 147 villages in Kareli mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Barha is a village of 1,534 people in 312 households (Census 2011) in Kareli tehsil, Narsimhapur district, Madhya Pradesh, the 17th-largest of 147 villages in Kareli tehsil. Literacy is 65%, about the same as the tehsil average of 65% and the sex ratio is 910 women per 1,000 men. It lies 15 km from the Narsimhapur district centre, 29 km from Bankhedi, the nearest town, 17 km from Bohani railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 487225, served by Amgaon Bada post office; the LGD village code is 491388. The nearest hospital or health centre is GOVT. HOSPITAL, 11 km away. The sarpanch is Matwar Singh Patel, and the village votes in Tendukheda assembly constituency, represented by MLA Vishwanath Singh (Mulam Bhaiya). The population is estimated at 1,809 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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