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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Manoj Tandilkar
Contact: 80****7317
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- LGD code
- 485500
- Pincode
- 460110
- Post office
- Athanair
- Population
- 477
- Households
- 90
- Literacy rate
- 62.3%
- Sex ratio
- 955 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 271
- Distance to district centre
- 52 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 30 km
- Distance to Bhopal
- 185 km
- Distance to Hyderabad
- 487 km
- Nearest railway station
- Multai · 7 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government Hospital, MULTAI · 6 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Sonora compares
By population, Sonora ranks #80 of 101 villages in Athner mandal.
Literacy rate
%
62.3%
+6.7% vs mandal average
- Sonora
- 62.3%
- Athner mandal
- 55.6%
- Betul district
- 59.7%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
955
−10 vs mandal average
- Sonora
- 955
- Athner mandal
- 965
Household size
people per home
5.3
+0.6 vs mandal average
- Sonora
- 5.3
- Athner mandal
- 4.7
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sonora at a glance
Sonora is a village of 477 people in 90 households (Census 2011) in Athner tehsil, Betul district, Madhya Pradesh, the 80th-largest of 101 villages in Athner tehsil. Literacy is 62%, 7 points above the tehsil average of 56% and the sex ratio is 955 women per 1,000 men. It lies 52 km from the Betul district centre, 33 km from Pusla, the nearest town, 7 km from Multai railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 460110, served by Athanair post office; the LGD village code is 485500. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, MULTAI, 6 km away. The sarpanch is Manoj Tandilkar, and the village votes in Betul assembly constituency, represented by MLA Hemant Vijay Khandelwal. The population is estimated at 562 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Sonora
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- No
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- Yes
- Power hours (summer)
- 6
- Power hours (winter)
- 8
- Primary school
- 1
- Middle school
- 0
- Secondary school
- 0
- Senior secondary
- 0
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 0
- Health sub-centre
- 0
- Community health centre
- 0
- Dispensary
- 0
- Veterinary hospital
- 0
- Post office
- No
- Sub post office
- No
- Commercial bank
- No
- Cooperative bank
- No
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- No
- Private bus service
- No
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- No
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- ATHNER
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 54
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 89
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 54
- All-weather road
- No
- Total area (ha)
- 343.36
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 3
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Sonora
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Sonora
- LGD code
- 485500
- Pincode
- 460110
- Post office
- Athanair
- Population (Census 2011)
- 477
- Population (projected 2026)
- 562
- Households
- 90
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 955
- Literacy rate
- 62.3%
- Coordinates
- 21.76019°N, 78.20255°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Betul
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Betul
- Member of Parliament
- Durga Das Uikey
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Hemant Vijay Khandelwal
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Manoj Tandilkar
- Block / Mandal
- Athner
Getting there
How to reach Sonora
Distance to cities · straight line
- Bhopal185 kmcapital
- Hyderabad487 km
- Mumbai630 km
- Delhi769 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationMultai7 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment Hospital, MULTAI6 km
- ATM / bankIndian Overseas Bank32 km
- Petrol pumpYawalkar Petrol Pump32 km
- Police stationWarud Police Station33 km
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View all 60+ →Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records, 2026-05-14
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-20
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)