By population, Duka ranks #76 of 195 villages in Ashta mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Duka is a village of 932 people in 181 households (Census 2011) in Ashta tehsil, Sehore district, Madhya Pradesh, the 76th-largest of 195 villages in Ashta tehsil. Literacy is 55%, 3 points below the tehsil average of 58% and the sex ratio is 894 women per 1,000 men. It lies 45 km from the Sehore district centre, 34 km from Chakrod railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 466116, served by Ashta post office; the LGD village code is 482944. The nearest hospital or health centre is Goverment Hospital, 8 km away. The sarpanch is dolat singh, and the village votes in Ashta assembly constituency, represented by MLA Gopal Singh Engineer. The population is estimated at 1,099 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Duka →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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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