Balau observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
Balau is a village in Khurai mandal, Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh with a population of 474 spread across 125 households. The village has a literacy rate of 60.5% and is positioned at coordinates 24.109°N, 78.413°E with PIN code 470117.
By population, Balau ranks #110 of 187 villages in Khurai mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Balau is a village of 474 people in 125 households (Census 2011) in Khurai tehsil, Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh, the 110th-largest of 187 villages in Khurai tehsil. Literacy is 61%, 2 points below the tehsil average of 63% and the sex ratio is 837 women per 1,000 men. It lies 28 km from the Sagar district centre, 12 km from Khimlasa, the nearest town, 10 km from Khurai Relway Stesan railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 470117, served by Khurai post office; the LGD village code is 459918. The nearest hospital or health centre is Swasti Clinic, 8 km away. The sarpanch is Neeraj Raguwanshi, and the village votes in Bina assembly constituency, represented by MLA Adv. Nirmla Sapre. The population is estimated at 559 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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