Turkai observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Turkai ranks #73 of 131 villages in Patharia mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Turkai is a village of 702 people in 125 households (Census 2011) in Patharia tehsil, Damoh district, Madhya Pradesh, the 73rd-largest of 131 villages in Patharia tehsil. Literacy is 75%, 14 points above the tehsil average of 61% and the sex ratio is 867 women per 1,000 men. It lies 25 km from the Damoh district centre, 8 km from Aslana railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 470672, served by Bansa Tarkheda post office; the LGD village code is 462199. The nearest hospital or health centre is Adarsh Medical Stores, 14 km away. The sarpanch is Ganga Singh Gound, and the village votes in Naryoli assembly constituency, represented by MLA Er. Pradeep Lariya. The population is estimated at 828 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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