By population, Bakena ranks #125 of 290 villages in Sironj mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bakena is a village of 586 people in 130 households (Census 2011) in Sironj tehsil, Vidisha district, Madhya Pradesh, the 125th-largest of 290 villages in Sironj tehsil. Literacy is 71%, 23 points above the tehsil average, and the sex ratio is 953 women per 1,000 men. It lies 49 km from the Vidisha district centre, 31 km from Maksudangarh, the nearest town, 48 km from Hinotia Pipalkhera railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 464228, served by Sironj post office; the LGD village code is 480710. The nearest hospital or health centre is Dr R.S Lodhi Clinic, 10 km away. The sarpanch is Shivkumari Dangi, and the village votes in Sironj assembly constituency, represented by Umakant Sharma. The population is estimated at 691 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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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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