By population, Rai ranks #99 of 215 villages in Kolaras mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Rai is a village of 625 people in 145 households (Census 2011) in Kolaras tehsil, Shivpuri district, Madhya Pradesh, the 99th-largest of 215 villages in Kolaras tehsil. Literacy is 65%, 19 points above the tehsil average of 46% and the sex ratio is 791 women per 1,000 men. It lies 27 km from the Shivpuri district centre, 57 km from Sirsod, the nearest town, 6 km from Lukwasa railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 473774, served by Jagatpur (Shivpuri) post office; the LGD village code is 455867. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government hospital Badarwas, 11 km away. The sarpanch is Balla Adiwasi, and the village votes in Kolaras assembly constituency, represented by MLA Mahendra Ramsingh Yadav Khatora. The population is estimated at 737 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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