Kanwas observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Kanwas ranks #17 of 109 villages in Khacharod mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kanwas is a village of 1,820 people in 370 households (Census 2011) in Khacharod tehsil, Ujjain district, Madhya Pradesh, the 17th-largest of 109 villages in Khacharod tehsil. Literacy is 57%, 2 points above the tehsil average of 55% and the sex ratio is 942 women per 1,000 men. It lies 62 km from the Ujjain district centre, 1 km from Runkhera railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 456224, served by Khachraud post office; the LGD village code is 471083. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government hospital Bangrod, 8 km away. The sarpanch is rahul chotana, and the village votes in Nagada-Khachrod assembly constituency, represented by MLA Dr. Tejbahadur Singh Chauhan. The population is estimated at 2,146 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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