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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Shankar Jat
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- LGD code
- 474242
- Pincode
- 455332
- Post office
- Kannod
- Population
- 540
- Households
- 104
- Literacy rate
- 58%
- Sex ratio
- 895 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 290
- Distance to district centre
- 56 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 11 km
- Distance to Bhopal
- 86 km
- Distance to Mumbai
- 575 km
- Nearest railway station
- Harda · 47 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Civil Hospital,Kannod · 10 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Olamba compares
By population, Olamba ranks #113 of 168 villages in Khategaon mandal.
Literacy rate
%
58.0%
+2.9% vs mandal average
- Olamba
- 58.0%
- Khategaon mandal
- 55.1%
- Dewas district
- 59.2%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
895
−28 vs mandal average
- Olamba
- 895
- Khategaon mandal
- 923
Household size
people per home
5.2
+0.2 vs mandal average
- Olamba
- 5.2
- Khategaon mandal
- 5.0
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Olamba at a glance
Olamba is a village of 540 people in 104 households (Census 2011) in Khategaon tehsil, Dewas district, Madhya Pradesh, the 113th-largest of 168 villages in Khategaon tehsil. Literacy is 58%, 3 points above the tehsil average of 55% and the sex ratio is 895 women per 1,000 men. It lies 56 km from the Dewas district centre, 47 km from Harda railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 455332, served by Kannod post office; the LGD village code is 474242. The nearest hospital or health centre is Civil Hospital,Kannod, 10 km away. The sarpanch is Shankar Jat, and the village votes in Khategaon assembly constituency, represented by MLA Aashish Govind Sharma. The population is estimated at 637 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Olamba
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- Yes
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- Yes
- Power hours (summer)
- 8
- Power hours (winter)
- 6
- Primary school
- 1
- Middle school
- 1
- 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
- Yes
- Private bus service
- Yes
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- Yes
- Mandi / regular market
- Yes
- Weekly haat
- Yes
- Nearest statutory town
- KHATEGAON
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 20
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 120
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 20
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Total area (ha)
- 236.47
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 178.18
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Olamba
- LGD code
- 474242
- Pincode
- 455332
- Post office
- Kannod
- Population (Census 2011)
- 540
- Population (projected 2026)
- 637
- Households
- 104
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 895
- Literacy rate
- 58.0%
- Coordinates
- 22.68521°N, 76.84526°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Vidisha
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Khategaon
- Member of Parliament
- Shivraj Singh Chauhan
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Aashish Govind Sharma
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Shankar Jat
- Block / Mandal
- Khategaon
Getting there
How to reach Olamba
Distance to cities · straight line
- Bhopal86 kmcapital
- Mumbai575 km
- Hyderabad614 km
- Delhi660 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationHarda47 km
- Hospital / PHCCivil Hospital,Kannod10 km
- Petrol pumpmukati petrol pump39 km
- CollegeVellore Institute of Technology - VIT Bhopal43 km
- Police stationSikandar bazaar police station39 km
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- 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, 2026-09-18
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
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