Shelte observes Ganeshotsav on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Maharashtra.
By population, Shelte ranks #119 of 168 villages in Wada mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Shelte is a village of 530 people in 108 households (Census 2011) in Wada taluka, Palghar district, Maharashtra, the 119th-largest of 168 villages in Wada taluka. Literacy is 63%, 2 points above the taluka average of 61% and the sex ratio is 956 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 421303, served by Wada post office; the LGD village code is 552032. The sarpanch is SHUBHANGI SUBHASH GHORKANA, and the village votes in Shirdi assembly constituency, represented by MLA Patil Vikhe Radhakrushna Eknathrao. The population is estimated at 625 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Shelte →
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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