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By population, Bela ranks #1 of 192 villages in Umred mandal — the largest.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bela is a village of 8,734 people in 2,129 households (Census 2011) in Umred taluka, Nagpur district, Maharashtra, the largest of 192 villages in Umred taluka. Literacy is 77%, 5 points above the taluka average of 72% and the sex ratio is 932 women per 1,000 men. It lies 85 km from the Nagpur district centre, 4 km from Malegaon, the nearest town, 12 km from Khat railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 441108, served by Bori (Nagpur) post office; the LGD village code is 536262. The nearest hospital or health centre is Cosmocare Skin, Beauty and Hair Clinic, 2 km away. The sarpanch is Arun Deorao Balpande, and the village votes in Hingna assembly constituency, represented by MLA Sameer Dattatraya Meghe. The population is estimated at 10,297 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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