Gilothar observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Gilothar ranks #38 of 76 villages in Bilaspur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Gilothar is a village of 424 people in 108 households (Census 2011) in Bilaspur tehsil, Umaria district, Madhya Pradesh, the 38th-largest of 76 villages in Bilaspur tehsil. Literacy is 66%, 12 points above the tehsil average of 53% and the sex ratio is 981 women per 1,000 men. It lies 56 km from the Umaria district centre, 18 km from Lorha railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 484660, served by Chandia post office; the LGD village code is 467767. The nearest hospital or health centre is Amrita Hospital, 18 km away. The sarpanch is Chainu Agariya, and the village votes in Vijayraghavgarh assembly constituency, represented by MLA Sanjay Satyendra Pathak. The population is estimated at 500 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Pathrikharud →
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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