By population, Chaura ranks #101 of 121 villages in Shahnagar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chaura is a village of 188 people in 50 households (Census 2011) in Shahnagar tehsil, Panna district, Madhya Pradesh, the 101st-largest of 121 villages in Shahnagar tehsil. Literacy is 60%, 9 points above the tehsil average of 51% and the sex ratio is 958 women per 1,000 men. It lies 35 km from the Panna district centre, 21 km from Rithi railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 488448, served by Sahanagar (Panna) post office; the LGD village code is 459359. The nearest hospital or health centre is Govt. Hospital, 19 km away. The sarpanch is RAHISHRANI, and the village votes in Pawai assembly constituency, represented by MLA Prahlad Lodhi. The population is estimated at 222 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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