Whel observes Ganeshotsav on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Maharashtra.
By population, Whel ranks #23 of 122 villages in Lanja mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Whel is a village of 1,167 people in 261 households (Census 2011) in Lanja taluka, Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra, the 23rd-largest of 122 villages in Lanja taluka. Literacy is 63%, 7 points below the taluka average of 69% and the sex ratio is 1,181 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 415643, served by Watul post office; the LGD village code is 565984. The sarpanch is Sunil Anant Shigam, and the village votes in Daund assembly constituency, represented by MLA Kul Rahul Subhashrao. The population is estimated at 1,376 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Vehel →
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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