Ashta observes Ganeshotsav on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Maharashtra.
By population, Ashta ranks #124 of 220 villages in Arvi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Ashta is a village of 93 people in 14 households (Census 2011) in Arvi taluka, Wardha district, Maharashtra, the 124th-largest of 220 villages in Arvi taluka. Literacy is 14%, 62 points below the taluka average of 76% and the sex ratio is 860 women per 1,000 men. It lies 10 km from the Wardha district centre, 10 km from Nachangaon, the nearest town, 6 km from Sorta railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 442201, served by Arvi (Wardha) post office; the LGD village code is 533684. The nearest hospital or health centre is Rural Hospital, Pulgaon, 7 km away. The sarpanch is Shankar, and the village votes in Dhamangaon Railway assembly constituency, represented by MLA Adsad Pratap Arunbhau. The population is estimated at 110 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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